Capistrano Deployment for laravel 4

readme.md

Installation

you must have capistrano installed

This Cafile could be placed on your application root directory, this is tested with laravel 4.0.x.

Capfile

load "deploy"

set :application, "App Name"  # Your app name
set :repository,  "git@github.com:xxxxx/xxx.git"   # Your git repository

set :user, "user_ssh"
set :document_root, "/home/#{user}/www/awesome_app"
set :deploy_via, :remote_cache

# SSH Settings
set :password, "password_ssh"
set :use_sudo, false
set :ssh_options, {:forward_agent => true}
set :copy_exclude, [".git",".gitignore"] # or any match like [".svn","/documents-on-repo-but-dont-deploy"]
set :keep_releases, 10  # only keep 10 version to save space

default_run_options[:pty] = true

role :app, "<server.example.com>"
role :web, "<server.example.com>"

# We need to over write a lot of the core functionality here
# since we don't need migrations, lots of the symlink stuff
# and server restarting.

# cap develop deploy:setup
# cap develop deploy:check
# cap develop deploy
task :develop do
  set :branch, "develop"
  set :artisan_env, "develop"
  set :deploy_to, "#{document_root}/develop"
end

# cap staging deploy:setup
# cap staging deploy:check
# cap staging deploy
task :staging do
  set :branch, "staging"
  set :artisan_env, "stage"
  set :deploy_to, "#{document_root}/staging"
end

# cap production deploy:setup
# cap production deploy:check
# cap production deploy
task :production do
  set :branch, "master"
  set :artisan_env, "production"
  set :deploy_to, "#{document_root}/production"
end

# This is strictly for PHP deploys
namespace :deploy do

  task :update do
    transaction do
      update_code
      symlink
      composer_install
      laravel_migrate
    end
  end

  task :finalize_update do
    transaction do
      run "chmod -R g+w #{releases_path}/#{release_name}"
    end
  end

  task :symlink do
    transaction do
      run "ln -nfs #{current_release} #{deploy_to}/#{current_dir}"
    end
  end

  task :composer_install do
    desc "Install composer packages"
    transaction do
      run "php /usr/bin/composer install --working-dir #{deploy_to}/#{current_dir}"
    end
  end

  task :laravel_migrate do
    transaction do
      run "php  #{deploy_to}/#{current_dir}/artisan --env=#{artisan_env} migrate"
    end
  end

  task :laravel_rollback do
    run "php  #{deploy_to}/#{current_dir}/artisan --env=#{artisan_env} migrate:rollback"
  end


  task :restart do
    transaction do
      # set writable storage dir
      run "chmod -R 777 #{deploy_to}/#{current_dir}/app/storage/cache"
      run "chmod -R 777 #{deploy_to}/#{current_dir}/app/storage/logs"
      run "chmod -R 777 #{deploy_to}/#{current_dir}/app/storage/meta"
      run "chmod -R 777 #{deploy_to}/#{current_dir}/app/storage/sessions"
      run "chmod -R 777 #{deploy_to}/#{current_dir}/app/storage/views"
      
      # remove some junk file
      run "rm -f #{deploy_to}/#{current_dir}/app/storage/cache/*"
      run "rm -f #{deploy_to}/#{current_dir}/app/storage/views/*"
    end
  end
end

after "deploy:rollback", "deploy:laravel_rollback"