Inploy is similar to Capistrano but easier - it has better defaults and it is more forgiving when you don’t know what you’re doing (me).

Inploy on your development machine:

add to Gemfile: gem ‘inploy’
bundle install —without production
Create deploy.rb under your app’s config directory. The basic config/deploy.rb file:
application = “test”repository = ‘[email protected]:my-apps-repo.git’hosts = [‘zer1’]path = ‘/home/deploy’

Notes on deploy.rb:

  • default user is ‘deploy’
  • deploys to #{path}/#{application}
  • Inploy’s hosts will look to your development machine’s .ssh/config (so add your production server)

Inploy commands

#### Pull the app from repo, bundle install, create database, migrate: bundle exec rake inploy:remote:setup

Once you’re setup, you can update your app and repo:

bundle exec rake inploy:remote:update

That’s it! You can learn more about Inploy on Github.