I already have a production instance deployed on the server. Its working well.
Here is what I need to do. Deploy a staging and Development environment on the server. I have already created a branch in github to do that.
Config
1) Ruby 1.8.6
2) Rails is being vendored
3) Webserver Nginx and Thin
4) I have already create a file under /usr/local/nginx/sites-enabled and sites-available folders
5) Added yml file under /etc/thin
6) Made edits to the deploy.rb and have added dev.rb under the config and deploy folders
7) Capistrano is being used on the server for deploy
Questions: How to deploy the dev environment from separate github branch different that production ? Will that reboot/affect the current production environment too ?
I want to make sure the production wont get affected by this. Please provide a list of commands or tutorials that will help me with this. I am into very early stages of of learning ROR so please be a little details. Help is very much appreciated.
EDIT:
1) Capify the project by installing the gem locally and running capify locally.
2) Make changes to you deploy.rb under config
3) set :stages with staging and production
4) set :default_stage as staging .. You have to edit this file more to customize your deployment
5) Under config/deploy/ : Create you production and staging ".rb" files. set the branch to master or any specific branch. Set your rails_env to staging in staging.rb and to production in production.rb.
Set deploy_to as xxxpath/staging and xxxpath/production in those appropriate files.
6) cap deploy will deploy in staging as default due to 4)
7) cap production deploy for production