Capistrano SFTP Deployment

Deploying without Subversion access

If you don't have Subversion access from your live Rails server, the standard Capistrano setup after a 'capify' can cause problems if using:

set :deploy_via, :copy
set :copy_strategy, :export

In that, when Capistrano says it's uploading stuff, it really only makes a 0-length file. It's something to do with Net::SFTP being thread-problematic.

However, as I found at the bottom of this Capistrano mailing archive, you just need to add this line to your config/deploy.rb:

set :synchronous_connect, true

And everything work hunky-dory.

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