deploy.rb

require "vlad"

set :application, "tanooki"
# set :domain, "wantstobesurpised.com"
set :domain, '67.207.131.232'
set :deploy_to, "/var/www/tanooki"
set :revision, 'origin/master'
set :user, 'edward'
set :repository, 'git://github.com/edward/tanooki.git'
set :scm, 'git'

namespace :vlad do
  set :app_command, '/etc/init.d/apache2'
  
  desc 'Restart Passenger'
  remote_task :start_app, :roles => :app do
    run "touch #{current_release}/tmp/restart.txt"
  end

  desc 'Restart Apache'
  remote_task :start_web, :roles => :app do
    run "sudo #{app_command} restart"
  end
end

Rakefile

# Add your own tasks in files placed in lib/tasks ending in .rake,
# for example lib/tasks/capistrano.rake, and they will automatically be available to Rake.

require(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'config', 'boot'))

require 'rake'
require 'rake/testtask'
require 'rake/rdoctask'

require 'tasks/rails'

begin
  require 'vlad'
  Vlad.load :scm => "git"
rescue LoadError
  # do nothing
end