Modern Capistrano Deprec recipes for Xapian, MongoDB, etc

Question

I am looking for some modern Capistrano 2.x / Deprec recipes for setting up toosl ike MongoDB, Xapian and Xapian-fu, and other tools (Redis, Memcache/d, etc)

Anyone know if Deprec is still active enough to have some recipes for some of these modern tools

Thanks

Charles

Answer 1

I would suggest looking into using Chef or Puppet to manage the tool/system configuration and continue to use Capistrano for app deployment.

There are modules to integrate Capistrano with either Chef or Puppet, eg:

• capistrano-chef
• capistrano-puppet

The Chef community is growing quickly but Puppet has been around for longer. The community contributed Puppet recipes tend to have broader O/S support, but Chef is catching up.

Either could be a great choice but discussing the merits of each for this question would lead to extended debate :).

A few perspectives:

• Puppet vs Chef - Fight!
• Why We Chose Chef

deprec.org and the deprec-users discussion group both seem rather dormant at the moment.