Mongrel Spinner and Restart tasks for Capistrano
These tasks should work with the default deploy.rb file. I assume you've at least read the Capistrano manual at rubyonrails.com, also, you should get your app running on mongrel first with manual booting and restarting before you try to automate.
h2. Spinner
h2. Restart
There's a more complete article on my blog.
h2. Spinner
desc <<-DESC Spinner is run by the default cold_deploy task. Instead of using script/spinner, we're just gonna rely on Mongrel to keep itself up. DESC task :spinner, :roles => :app do application_port = xxxx #get this from your friendly sysadmin run "mongrel_rails start -e production -p #{application_port} -d -c #{current_path}" end
h2. Restart
desc "Restart the web server" task :restart, :roles => :app do begin run "cd #{current_path} && mongrel_rails restart" rescue RuntimeError => e puts e puts "Probably not a big deal, so I'll just keep trucking..." end end
There's a more complete article on my blog.
