## Set these vars up

set :application, "your_appname"                     # The name of the app
set :user, "your_username"                           # Your Textdrive username
set :domain, 'your_servername.textdrive.com'         # Your domain
set :path, "/users/home/#{user}"                     # The path to root of your site
set :port, YOUR_PORT                                 # Your port from Textdrive
set :apps_directory, "railsapps"                     # The directory where you store your rails apps


## Don't have to worry about anything below here

set :repository, "http://url_for.yoursvnrepos.com/svn/#{application}/trunk"
set :svn_username, Proc.new { "your_svn_username --password your_svn_password" }
    
set :deploy_to, "#{path}/#{apps_directory}/#{application}" 

role :web, domain
role :app, domain
role :db,  domain, :primary => true

# Space saving by Visi http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vgondi/about
set :keep_releases, 3
set :checkout, "export"

task :cold_deploy do
  transaction do
    update_code
    symlink
  end
  
  run "chmod 755 #{deploy_to}/current/script/spawn" 
  run "#{deploy_to}/current/script/spawn"
  restart  
end

task :restart do
  run "#{deploy_to}/current/script/process/reaper -a reload"
end

task :after_deploy do
  #run "cp #{path}/etc/#{application}.yml #{path}/sites/#{application}/current/config/database.yml"

  #setup links to directories in the shared directory
  delete "#{current_path}/public/photos", :recursive => true
  run "ln -nfs #{shared_path}/photos #{current_path}/public/photos" 
end

desc <<-DESC
Removes unused releases from the releases directory. By default, the last 5
releases are retained, but this can be configured with the 'keep_releases'
variable. This will use sudo to do the delete by default, but you can specify
that run should be used by setting the :use_sudo variable to false.
DESC
task :cleanup do
  count = (self[:keep_releases] || 5).to_i
  if count >= releases.length
    logger.important "no old releases to clean up"
  else
    logger.info "keeping #{count} of #{releases.length} deployed releases"
    directories = (releases - releases.last(count)).map { |release|
      File.join(releases_path, release) }.join(" ")

    delete "#{directories}", :recursive => true
  end
end

task :after_setup, :roles=>[:web, :app, :db] do
  
end

Capistrano Recipe for TextDrive

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