Using capistrano to deploy from different git branches

Question

I am using capistrano to deploy a RoR application. The codebase is in a git repository, and branching is widely used in development. Capistrano uses deploy.rb f

Answer 1

If you're using capistrano-multistage, you only need to run

cap -s branch=$MY_BRANCH deploy

or

cap -s branch=$MY_BRANCH production deploy

without any further edit to your deploy.rb.