gistfile1.rb

require 'rubygems'
require 'railsless-deploy'

# Your application name
set :application, "someapp"

# We're not deploying from a repo, since this is scala and we
# need to compile. Set SCM to none
set :scm, :none
# Our deploy is to copy the contents of…
set :deploy_via, :copy
# the target directory! In this case repository is really
# a pointer to the directory
set :repository,  "target"

# You can use multiple here, if that's what you have
role :web, "app1.example.com"

# Deploying to AWS? Remove this and put your key path here.
#ssh_options[:keys] = [File.join(ENV["HOME"], "mykey.pem")]

set :deploy_to, "/home/someapp"
set :user, "someapp"
set :use_sudo, false
# Skip bits in "target" that we don't want.
set :copy_exclude, ["streams", "scala*"]

after "deploy:restart", "deploy:cleanup"

namespace :deploy do
  # Override start run current/start. The options are options to play
  # specifying a config file and pidfile
  task :start do
    run "nohup current/start -Dconfig.file=/home/someapp/production.conf -Dpidfile.path=/home/someapp/someapp.pid >/dev/null 2>&1 &"
  end
  # Handle killing a running instance
  task :stop do
    run "kill -15 `cat /home/someapp/someapp.pid`"
  end
end