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Posts Tagged ‘git’

Deploying Rails Apps with Capistrano, Git, and Passenger

I host my sites on an Ubuntu VPS. I use a combination of Rails, Apache2, Phusion Passenger, Git, and MySQL. I have a pretty useful Capistrano deploy.rb if you have a similar configuration. I’d love some feedback, as I promised to assist Jamis Buck in his Capistrano documentation efforts.

Installing Git and gitosis on Ubuntu

I’m switching all my personal projects to git from Subversion. To that end, I’ve set up a remote git repository on my Linode.com VPS running Ubuntu. Here’s how to do it:
First, install git on the remote server:
sudo apt-get install git-core

Then, following instructions on scie.nti.st, we grab the gitosis code (still remote):
cd ~/src
git clone git://eagain.net/gitosis.git

Then:
cd gitosis
sudo [...]

RailsConf Git Talk

Scott Chacon’s RailsConf 2008 Talk on Git: