Deploy Magento with Capistrano

This project is aimed to provide a simple tool that will deploy your Magento project to a set of environments.

Requirements

Ruby (<= 1.9.3)
Bundler
Capistrano (<= 2.15.5)
Git
Composer

Install

Step 1

Install Ruby, Git and download Composer on your own. Google for howto's depending on your OS and environmnet 😄

Step 2

Download skeleton to your Magento project via Composer. For this, add the following to your composer.json:

{
    "minimum-stability": "dev",
    "require": {
        "magento-hackathon/magento-composer-installer": "*",
        "evozon/magentify-extended": "*"
    },
    "repositories": [
        {
            "type": "git",
            "url":  "git@github.com:evozon/magentify-extended.git"
        }
    ],
    "extra": {
        "magento-root-dir": "./",
		"magento-deploystrategy": "copy"
    }
}

and run:

php composer.phar install

Step 3

Install required Ruby gems and dependiencies via Bundler:

cd deploy/capistrano
sudo gem install bundler
bundle install

Step 4

Configure Capistrano

Edit project under deploy/capistrano/deploy/project.rb and tasks or other actions under deploy/capistrano/deploy/deploy.rb

Create a package folder under deploy/capistrano/deploy/ where you can have a config file for each environment (example: deploy/capistrano/deploy/coolapp/production.rb)

Thanks to

The guys who developed Capistrano
Alistair Stead from Magentify