If you ever need to use Capistrano 2 with virtual hosts on Nginx this article may save you some time by automating the process.

The article assumes that for each vhost you want to define a nginx configuration file which gets placed in /etc/nginx/sites-available/ and symlinked to sites-enabled. If you just want one big nginx file with all your vhosts in it, then this article won’t help!

What we want is for Capistrano to auto generate the nginx configuration using a shared configuration template and place it on the server. E.g.

Original Idea: http://www.subreview.com/articles/6