Question

If I have files not tracked by any VCS, say for example jquery plugin files, how do I make Capistrano work with them?

Can I just upload them manually to the “shared” folder? or does Capistrano automatically handle “non-VCS-ed” files?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

You can copy arbitrary files with capistrano via scp like this:

task :copy_files do
  top.upload('path/to/files', "#{shared_path}", {:via => :scp, :recursive => true})
end