Sushi Codeur's List: Sys-admin

Let’s start with this: Git is mind-blowingly amazing and simple. We’ll get back to this later.

Moving on though, a while back I was combing through my feed reader and found a post that leapt up at me: Deployment Script Spring Cleaning by Chris Wanstrath over at Github. It amazed me that no one had thought of doing this before. That is, using git as the deployment strategy for Capistrano.

This tutorial assumes no previous knowledge of scripting or programming, but progresses rapidly toward an intermediate/advanced level of instruction... all the while sneaking in little nuggets of UNIX® wisdom and lore. It serves as a textbook, a manual for self-study, and a reference and source of knowledge on shell scripting techniques. The exercises and heavily-commented examples invite active reader participation, under the premise that the only way to really learn scripting is to write scripts.