Webistrano - Capistrano deployment the easy way

About:

Webistrano is a Web UI for managing Capistrano deployments. It lets you manage projects and their stages like test, production, and staging with different settings. Those stages can then be deployed with Capistrano through Webistrano.

Preliminaries:

1. Instrall heroku gem

Install heroku gem:

gem install heroku

2. User registration

Register on heroku.com (without going into detail).

Deploy on Heroku:

1. Configuration

Copy config/webistrano_config.rb.sample to config/webistrano_config.rb and edit appropriatly. In this configuration file you can set the mail settings of Webistrano.

2. Create heroku application

Create heroku application by your favorite app-name:

cd webistrano
heroku login
heroku create --stack cedar app-name

3. Bundle install

Install gems:

rm Gemfile.lock 
bundle install --without production

4. Precompile on local

Precompile on local:

RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake assets:precompile

5. Deploy on heroku

Deploy on heroku:

git push heroku master

6. Create the database

Create the database structure with Rake on heroku:

heroku run rake db:setup

7. Start Webistrano

Webistrano is then available at http://app-name.herokuapp.com/

The default user is admin, the password is admin!. Please change the password after the first login.

Author:

Ichiro Kimura kag.web@gmail.com

License:

Code: BSD, see LICENSE.txt Images: Right to use in their provided form in Webistrano installations. No other right granted.