Capistrano recipe for deploying static content.

deploy.rb

set :application, "My Static Content"
set :servername, 'test.example.com'

# no git? simply deploy a directory
set :scm, :none
set :repository,  "." # the directory to deploy

# using git? deploy from local git repository
# set :scm, :git
# set :repository, 'file//.' # path to local git repository

# files will get copied over
set :deploy_via, :copy

# do not copy these files, adjust to your needs
set :copy_exclude, [".git", ".gitignore", "Capfile", ".config"]

# the remote user
set :user, 'username'

set :use_sudo, false

# directory where our release and current directories will live
set :deploy_to, '/var/www/static/my-site'

role :web, servername
role :app, servername        
role :db,  servername, :primary => true

# Override default tasks which are not relevant to a non-rails app.
namespace :deploy do
  task :migrate do
    puts "Skipping migrate."
  end
  task :finalize_update do
    puts "Skipping finalize_update."
  end
  task :start do
    puts "Skipping start."
  end
  task :stop do 
    puts "Skipping stop."
  end
  task :restart do
    puts "Skipping restart."
  end
end

# leave only 5 releases
after "deploy", "deploy:cleanup"