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EngineYard are a bunch of helpful and clever boffins

I’m currently contracting on a Rails project (still under wraps) and we’ve recently made the decision to move from a MediaTemple DV 3.0 VM to EngineYard.

EngineYard, it has to be said, are a lot more expensive, but for the money you’re effectively gaining a full time IT team to fully manage your servers for you. And being full-time Ruby and Rails guys means you can sleep well at night knowing they’re doing it well.

EngineYard Capistrano (eycap) Scripts

I thought I’d share a link to their Capistrano scripts, hosted on Github – who it turn are, in a chicken and egg sort of way, hosted by EngineYard.

Learning the bare minimum of how to use Capistrano was quite a painful process when I started out about 3 months ago, so I think this may be of value to some people looking for advice.

The master tree is located over at http://github.com/engineyard/eycap/tree/master/

Some handy finds so far:

• Cloning DB from Prod to Staging [this rocks my world]
  http://github.com/engineyard/eycap/tree/master/lib/eycap/recipes/database.rb
• Filtered Remote Cache deployment strategy
  http://github.com/engineyard/eycap/tree/master/lib/capistrano/recipes/deploy/strategy/filtered_remote_cache.rb
• And :tail_production_log
  http://github.com/engineyard/eycap/tree/master/lib/eycap/recipes/slice.rb