passenger-deploy.rb

set :application,  "TODO"
set :scm_username, "TODO"
 

set :user, application              # assumes you create 1 user per app
set :domain, "#{application}.com"   # this can be changed
set :use_sudo, false                # everything is owned by user
 
role :app, domain                   # These options are fine for most cases
role :web, domain
role :db, domain, :primary => true
 
set :scm, :git                      # Git rocks.
set :repository,  "git@github.com:#{scm_username}/#{application}.git" # GitHub makes Git rock even more
set :deploy_to, "/var/www/#{application}"  # where the app is stored on the server (Apache default)
set :branch, "master"               # branch of Git repository to use
set :deploy_via, :remote_cache      # prevents fetching entire repository each time
set :git_enable_submodules, 1       # if you use git submodules, this will check them out for you
ssh_options[:forward_agent] = true  # With this, you don't have to install a deploy key to access Git repository
 
namespace :deploy do
  # Restarting a passenger instance is as easy as touching a file
  desc "Restarting Passenger with restart.txt"
  task :restart, :roles => :app, :except => { :no_release => true } do
    run "touch #{current_path}/tmp/restart.txt"
  end
  
  # There is no starting/stopping with Passenger 
  # so this just stops mongrel from trying to do anything.
  [:start, :stop].each do |t|
    desc "#{t} task is a no-op with Passenger"
    task t, :roles => :app do ; end
  end
end