WordPress Capistrano deployment file (On Webfaction)

wp_capistrano.rb

default_run_options[:pty] = true  # Must be set for the password prompt from git to work

# WebFaction user account
# This is the server user account
set :server_user, "<server_username>"

# Server Domain
set :domain, "<domain_name>"
set :user, server_user
# Repository User
set :repo_user, "<repository_username>"
# Repository Name
set :repo_name, "<repository_name>"

# Application directory on the server
set :application, "<application_folder_name>"

# Repository location
set :repository, "<repository_url>"

# Default repository branch to checkout
set :branch, "master"

# We're using submodules [WordPress] & themes:[<theme_name>]
set :git_enable_submodules, 1

# We're using git as our repository
set :scm, :git

# Tell Capistrano to use agent forwarding with this command. uses your local keys instead of keys installed on the server.
ssh_options[:forward_agent] = true
ssh_options[:keys] = [File.join(ENV["HOME"], ".ssh", "<rsa_key_name>")]

# Deploy settings
set :deploy_to, "/home/#{server_user}/webapps-releases/#{application}"

# Fetch only the changes since the last.
set :deploy_via, :remote_cache

# Exclude the following files
set :copy_exclude, [".git", ".DS_Store", ".gitignore", ".gitmodules", "env_local", "env_prod", "env_stage"]

set :copy_compression, :gzip

# Options
set :use_sudo, false
set :keep_releases, 5

set :env, "dev"

# Theme settings
set :theme_path, "<Local_WordPress_theme_path>"

# Timestamp
set :time_stamp, Time.now.to_i

# Roles & servers
role :app, domain
role :web, domain
role :db, domain, :primary => true

server "#{domain}", :app, :primary => true

# Taskst to perform during with production flag
# When using --`$: cap production deploy`
task :production do
    set :application, "<production_application_folder>"
    set :deploy_to, "/home/#{server_user}/webapps-releases/#{application}"
    set :branch, "master"
    set :env, "prod"
end

task :staging do
    set :application, "<staging_application_folder>"
    # Deploy Settings
    set :deploy_to, "/home/#{server_user}/webapps-releases/#{application}"
    set :branch, "master"
    set :env, "stage"
end

# Custom deployment namespace
namespace :customs do
    desc "Symlinking files"
    task :make_symlink, :roles => :app do
        run "ln -nfs #{shared_path}/uploads #{release_path}/application/wp-content/uploads"
        run "ln -nfs #{shared_path}/blogs.dir #{release_path}/application/wp-content/blogs.dir"
    end
    desc "Set development flag"
    task :set_environment, :roles => :app do
        if env === "dev" then
            run "touch #{release_path}/env_dev"
        end
        if env === "stage" then
            run "touch #{release_path}/env_stage"
        end
    end

end

namespace :themes do
    
    desc "Deploy WordPress Theme using Sass/Compass"
    task :deploy_theme, :roles => :app do

        set :asset_path, "<path_to_assets>"
        #compile and upload sass files
        run_locally( "cd #{theme_path}/#{asset_path}/<sass_compass_dir>; compass compile" )
        upload( "#{theme_path}/#{asset_path}/css", "#{release_path}/<WordPress_theme_path>/#{asset_path}/css" )

    end

    desc "Minify Javascript"
    task :minify_js, :roles => :app do
        set :my_theme, "<theme_name>/assets"
        if( env === "prod" || env === "stage" ) then
            #Minify the script file
            run_locally( "cd #{theme_path}/#{my_theme}/js; juicer merge -i script.js -o script.min.#{time_stamp}.js" )
            #Upload the minified script
            upload( "#{theme_path}/#{my_theme}/js/script.min.#{time_stamp}.js", "#{release_path}/application/wp-content/themes/#{my_theme}/js/script.min.#{time_stamp}.js" )
            #Delete minified local script file
            run_locally( "cd #{theme_path}/#{my_theme}/js; rm script.min.#{time_stamp}.js")
        end
    end

    desc "Update the server side wp-config file with the new timestamp"
    task :update_config, :roles => :app do
        # Change to the release path app directory
        # Find and replace the <TIMESTAMP> token with the timestamp.
        # Remove the wp-config.php.bak file that's generated by the sed command
        if( env === "prod" || env === "stage" ) then
            run "cd #{release_path}/application/; sed -i.bak 's/<TIMESTAMP>/#{time_stamp}/g' wp-config.php; rm wp-config.php.bak"
        end
    end


end


after "deploy:finalize_update", "customs:make_symlink"
after "deploy:finalize_update", "customs:set_environment"
after "deploy:finalize_update", "themes:update_config"
after "deploy:update_code", "themes:deploy_theme"
after "deploy:update_code", "themes:minify_js"
after "deploy", "deploy:cleanup"

Looks good man. Question about excluding env_local, env_prod, and env_stage. Are you excluding them because you're using these files at the root of your site?

Just updated things to include adding the env_dev flag.

Note on Timestamp. In the wp-config.php file, I have the following line: define( "WP_TIMESTAMP", );
The string is a token that is replaced with an actual timestamp during deployment. I use it for cache-busting.

Juicer (https://github.com/cjohansen/juicer) runs JSHint, Yuicompressor and then concatenates all the js dependency files into one script file. It's awesome.