Category Archives: Capistrano

Stop uploaded files getting ‘deleted’ with Capistrano

By Alastair | March 13, 2007

Here’s how to stop your site’s uploads or other static file directories disappering after doing a ‘cap deploy’ with Capistrano. Capistrano is actually behaving exactly as it should. The problem is that the ‘uploads’ directory is being left behind in release purgatory while the other files happily move on up to the castle in the [...]

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MT GS RoR A-Z: The complete guide to Rails on Media Temple’s Grid Server

By Alastair | February 18, 2007

This tutorial will walk you through setting up everything you need to deploy Rails apps on Media Temple’s Grid Server. The information on each part of the setup is available elsewhere but I thought it would be helpful to have it all in one place. The tutorial will cover setting up a rails container, creating [...]

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