Tutorial Series
How To Use Capistrano to Automate Deployments
Introduction
Capistrano is a Ruby based remote server automation tool which can be easily used to automate mundane deployment and system management tasks. Using Capistrano, you can almost entirely automate all actions you would normally take to get your product live.
Series Tutorials
Tutorial
How To Use Capistrano to Automate Deployments: Getting Started
Published on January 22, 2014
In this DigitalOcean article, we will be taking a close look at Capistrano: a Ruby-based remote server automation tool which can be easily used to automate mundane deployment and system management tasks.
Tutorial
How To Automate Ruby On Rails Application Deployments Using Capistrano
Updated on March 23, 2022
In this tutorial, we are going create a rock-solid CentOS server to host Ruby-on-Rails applications using Nginx and Passenger. We will continue with learning how to automate the process of deployments—and updates—using the Ruby based automation tool Capistrano.
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