Capifony, the cool Capistrano recipes for Symfony applications

For the past two years, I have been using Capistrano to deploy my applications, even if I sometimes rely on Git to deploy some of them.

Capistrano is fantastic! It’s a framework to run commands over SSH. You configure the process to deploy your application once and it will work for all servers.

Capistrano is extensible. You can write your own recipes to avoid repeating yourself. That’s what I did for a long time for my symfony 1.x projects. I never had any issues with this recipe.

For my Symfony (2.x) applications, I didn’t have to write anything, though. Not because I’m lazy but because a wonderful project called capifony already exists!

Capifony is a set of recipes for both symfony 1.x and Symfony (2.x) applications. This project has been created by my friend @everzet and sponsored by KnpLabs.

This week, I’m really proud to announce that Konstantin gave me the keys of this project so that I can maintain and improve it. I released capifony 2.1.7 yesterday with a bunch of fixes as well as new features. In the next weeks, I will work on updating the documentation.

The project is hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/everzet/capifony. As usual, feel free to contribute :-) To ease contributions on the documentation, I’ve added the nice “Fork & Edit” feature:

Don’t hesitate to contribute or report issues. Your feedback is precious! Thanks!