Capistrano::Configuration.instance.load do # http://www.bencurtis.com/2011/12/skipping-asset-compilation-with-capistrano/ namespace :deploy do namespace :assets do task :precompile, :roles => :web, :except => { :no_release => true } do from = source.next_revision(current_revision) if capture("cd #{latest_release} && #{source.local.log(from)} lib/assets/ vendor/assets/ app/assets/ | wc -l").to_i > 0 run %Q{cd #{latest_release} && #{rake} RAILS_ENV=#{rails_env} #{asset_env} assets:precompile} else logger.info "Skipping asset pre-compilation because there were no asset changes" end end end end end