Capistrano is a battle-tested deployment automation tool for Ruby applications, and capistrano-rails adds Rails-specific tasks such as running migrations, precompiling assets, and restarting application servers.
It uses SSH to coordinate deployments across servers, offering a repeatable and scriptable way to deploy Rails applications.
Setup involves adding Capistrano and its Rails plugin to your Gemfile, running the generator to create deployment configs, and customising stage files for environments.
It supports Rails 6, 7 and 8 on Ruby 3+ and works with popular servers like Puma and Passenger. Its strengths are maturity, flexibility, and large community adoption, while its weaknesses are initial complexity and learning curve.
Alternatives to Capistrano include Mina for lightweight deployments or Docker/Kubernetes pipelines for containerised setups.
It uses SSH to coordinate deployments across servers, offering a repeatable and scriptable way to deploy Rails applications.
Setup involves adding Capistrano and its Rails plugin to your Gemfile, running the generator to create deployment configs, and customising stage files for environments.
It supports Rails 6, 7 and 8 on Ruby 3+ and works with popular servers like Puma and Passenger. Its strengths are maturity, flexibility, and large community adoption, while its weaknesses are initial complexity and learning curve.
Alternatives to Capistrano include Mina for lightweight deployments or Docker/Kubernetes pipelines for containerised setups.