File permissions handling for Capistrano v3.*

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'capistrano', '~> 3.0.0'
gem 'capistrano-file-permissions'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install capistrano-file-permissions

Require the module in your Capfile:

require 'capistrano/file-permissions'

Set the (relative) paths to the files you want to be handled during deployment, and optionally add a user to give access.

set :file_permissions_paths, ["app/logs", "app/cache"]
set :file_permissions_users, ["www-data"]

Add the acl task to the deployment flow

before "deploy:updated", "deploy:set_permissions:acl"

Assume app/logs is a shared directory, and app/cache is part of the normal release, this gem would execute the following:

[..] setfacl -Rn -m u:www-data:rwX -m u:<deploy-user>:rwX <path-to-app>/shared/app/logs <path-to-app>/<release>/app/cache

• deploy:set_permissions:chmod
• deploy:set_permissions:chgrp
• deploy:set_permissions:chown

The gem makes the following configuration variables available (shown with defaults)

set :file_permissions_roles, :all
set :file_permissions_paths, []
set :file_permissions_users, []
set :file_permissions_groups, []
set :file_permissions_chmod_mode, "0777"

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