Deploy PHP Websites Using Capistrano (and Git)

The Rails deployment flow is really smooth thanks to the powerful (and easy to use) Capistrano.

Capistrano not only works with Rails and other Ruby code bases, but also code bases in any programming languages, such as PHP!

Here is an overview of what I did to get one of our PHP production sites up and running with Capistrano.

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Use the ‘textmate’ Command to Quickly Install Bundle Files

Initially developed by Yehuda Katz, the Textmate gem is an extremely handy tool for installing and managing your Textmate bundle files.

The tool works very well, for the most part. But due to the way the GitHub search query was built, the tool failed at finding Textmate bundles that do not honour the ‘-tmbundle’ suffix in the name of their repositories.

I was waiting for GitHub to fix their API bug which I reported here, but today I discovered a workaround that solves this issue.

So, here, I present you with the improved code on my fork.

Update: The changes are now merged back to Ddollar’s repo, so you may install the Textmate gem by:

gem install textmate --source git://github.com/ddollar/textmate.git

Enjoy! :)

Advanced Search Query on GitHub

Did you know, you can perform advanced search queries on GitHub?

For example:

ruby AND (textmate OR tmbundle)

The above query will search everything containing ruby, as well as either textmate or tmbundle.

Unfortunately at this stage the GitHub API does not support it. I’ve opened a ticket here.