# Capistrano

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/capistrano/195313>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [September 21, 2010, 3:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/capistrano/195313 "2010-09-21T15:40:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![rubyginner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/b5e925/32.png) [@rubyginner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rubyginner)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 3:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/capistrano/195313/1 "2010-09-21T15:40:46Z")

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Hi,

I’ve seen Capistrano mentioned so googled it. I get [capify.org](http://capify.org), click  
on it  
and get:

Index of /

- cgi-bin/ [http://www.capify.org/cgi-bin/](http://www.capify.org/cgi-bin/)
- rdoc/ [http://www.capify.org/rdoc/](http://www.capify.org/rdoc/)
- ri/ [http://www.capify.org/ri/](http://www.capify.org/ri/)
- wiki/ [http://www.capify.org/wiki/](http://www.capify.org/wiki/)

Apache/2.2.16 (Unix) mod\_ssl/2.2.16 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5  
mod\_auth\_passthrough/2.1 mod\_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 Server  
at  
[www.capify.org](http://www.capify.org) Port 80

Am I looking in the right place?

Thanks  
Adrian

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**Author:** ![rubyginner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/b5e925/32.png) [@rubyginner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rubyginner)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 6:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/capistrano/195313/2 "2010-09-21T18:34:04Z")

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capistrano is a gem that simplifies deployment a LOT

and their site seems to be down

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**Author:** ![rubyginner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/b5e925/32.png) [@rubyginner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rubyginner)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 1:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/capistrano/195313/3 "2010-09-22T01:29:49Z")

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I think it complicates deployment a lot, take a look at Inploy 🙂

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 1:33 PM, radhames brito [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
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**Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 2:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/capistrano/195313/4 "2010-09-22T02:42:58Z")

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Diego Carrion wrote:

> I think it complicates deployment a lot,

Not in my experience. (I like Capistrano a lot. Probably 99% of the  
Rails community uses it.)

> take a look at Inploy 🙂

I will. What does it do better or differently than Cap, in your  
opinion?

Best,  
–Â  
Marnen Laibow-Koser  
[http://www.marnen.org](http://www.marnen.org)  
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**Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 12:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/capistrano/195313/5 "2010-09-29T00:42:29Z")

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Hi Marnen,

99% of the Rails community use Capistrano and 99% of the deployment  
scripts  
have a lot of things in common. Inploy encapsulates this things. An  
Inploy  
script usually takes 3 ou 4 lines, it does the things that most people  
wants  
by default.

cheers

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**Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 4:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/capistrano/195313/6 "2010-09-29T04:20:14Z")

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Hi radhmes,

here is a little bit outdated video:

[![](https://i.vimeocdn.com/video/28467003-1070d084e124323cd3e9dd2e53c71a80f2295d4c58b319b0337ec1f35dbf2396-d "Rails deployment made easy with Inploy") ](https://vimeo.com/6976189)

now you can configure Inploy like this:

application = ‘panthers’

instead of:

config.application = ‘panthers’

and call

inploy  
inploy setup

instead of

rake inploy:remote:update  
rake inploy:remote:setup

cheers

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 9:35 PM, radhames brito [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
wrote:

> For more options, visit this group at  
> [http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en](http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en).

–  
Diego Carrion  
[http://www.diegocarrion.com](http://www.diegocarrion.com)  
[http://www.mouseoverstudio.com/blog/](http://www.mouseoverstudio.com/blog/)  
[http://www.twitter.com/dcrec1](http://www.twitter.com/dcrec1)  
[http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/13580-diego-carrion](http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/13580-diego-carrion)

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**Author:** ![rubyginner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/b5e925/32.png) [@rubyginner](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rubyginner)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 2:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/capistrano/195313/7 "2010-09-29T02:36:39Z")

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@diego is there a video tutorial around?

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**Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 5:45am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/capistrano/195313/8 "2010-09-29T05:45:07Z")

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ill be testing this look very interesting
