Passing parameters to Capistrano

Question

I\'m looking into the possibility of using Capistrano as a generic deploy solution. By \"generic\", I mean not-rails. I\'m not happy with the quality of the documentation I\'m f

Answer 1

Check out capistrano-ash for a library that helps with non-rails deployment. I use it to deploy a PyroCMS app and it works great.

Here is a snippet from my Capfile for that project:

# deploy from git repo
set :repository, "git@git.mygitserver.com:mygitrepo.git"
# tells cap to use git
set :scm, :git

I'm not sure I understand the last two parts of the question. Provide some more detail and I'd be happy to help.

EDIT after example given:

set :repository, "#{scm_user}@gitsrv.domain:app"

Then each person with deploy priveledges can add the following to their local ~/.caprc file:

set :scm_user, 'someuser'