Pagoda Boxfile for CakePHP

database.php.pagoda

<?php
// Source: http://help.pagodabox.com/customer/portal/articles/174049-cakephp#setting-global-server-variables-in-database-php
define("DB_HOST", $_SERVER['DB1_HOST']);
define("DB_NAME", $_SERVER['DB1_NAME']);
define("DB_USER", $_SERVER['DB1_USER']);
define("DB_PASS", $_SERVER['DB1_PASS']);
define("DB_PORT", $_SERVER['DB1_PORT']);

class DATABASE_CONFIG {

    public $default = array(
        'datasource' => 'Database/Mysql',
        'persistent' => false,
        'host' => DB_HOST,
        'login' => DB_USER,
        'password' => DB_PASS,
        'database' => DB_NAME,
        'prefix' => '',
        'port' => DB_PORT,
    );
}

gistfile1.yml

# vim: set ft=yaml expandtab tabstop=2 shiftwidth=2 softtabstop=2:
web1:
  document_root: /app/webroot
  shared_writable_dirs:
    - app/tmp
    - app/tmp/cache
    - app/tmp/cache/models
    - app/tmp/cache/persistent
    - app/tmp/cache/views
    - app/tmp/logs
    - app/tmp/sessions
    - app/tmp/tests
  php_extensions:
    - mcrypt
    - mbstring
    - pdo_mysql
    - apc
  after_build:
    - "mv app/Config/database.php.pagoda app/Config/database.php"
  before_deploy:
    # https://github.com/CakeDC/migrations
    - "app/Console/cake Migrations.migration all"
  after_deploy:
    - "rm -rf app/tmp/cache/models/*"
    - "rm -rf app/tmp/cache/persistent/*"
    - "rm -rf app/tmp/cache/views/*"
  # Stop Content-Length header from being set, by default the value is incorrect
  php_zlib_output_compression: On

db1:
  type: mysql

If you don't have the migrations plugin installed and the directory named 'migrations' (lowercase 'm') the deploy will likely fail.