Yii Capistrano recipe

deploy.rb

set :application,           "AppName"
set :repository,            "git@github.com:path/toRepo.git"
set :deploy_to,             "/app/appname"
set :deploy_via,            :copy
set :stage_dir,             "config/stages"
set :current_dir ,          "www"
set :default_stage,         "dev"
set :stages,                %w(dev testing prod)

set :use_sudo,              false

require 'capistrano/ext/multistage'

set :copy_exclude,          [".git", "hgup.php", ".gitignore", ".gitmodules"]
set :scm,                   :git

# 14Mb archive is not an option, but that's what it takes with submodules enabled
# gotta deploy 'em manually
set :git_enable_submodules, true

set :shared_children,       ["framework", "uploads", "assets", "protected/config", "protected/runtime", "protected/extensions", "sphinx"]

after "deploy", "yii:migrate"

namespace :yii do
    task :migrate do
        # because Yii's own command is an interactive sh*t
        run "/usr/bin/env php #{File.join(deploy_to, current_dir, 'protected', 'yiic.php')} wvmigrate"
    end
end

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