RIC ROBERTS

Sometimes it makes sense to have several Rails applications (or other ruby projects) in a single git repository. For example you might want to fork, tag or track changes on all the projects together (or you might just be too stingy to pay for a bigger Github plan).

The problem is that if you want to deploy just one of the applications to your server, unfortunately Capistrano doesn’t support deploying just sub-folders of git repositories. You can get round this by adapting the deploy_via :remote_cache option.

In the vendor/plugins folder of your project create the following folder structure:

/vendor
|- /plugins
   |- /remote_cache_with_project_root
      |- /recipes
      |- /lib
      |  |- /capistrano
      |     |- /recipes
      |        |- /deploy
      |           |- /strategy
      |              |- remote_cache_with_project_root.rb
      |- recipe.rb

Here are the contents of the files:

recipe.rb:

remote_cache_with_project_root.rb:

In your project’s deploy.rb file, set remote_cache_with_project_root as the deployment method, and set the name of the subfolder as the project_root option.