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For the last few months, I’ve been working with Aaron Huslage and Obie Fernandez and others to write a book about Capistrano for the Addison Wesley Professional Ruby Series. The book will be published by Addison Wesley and available for sale later this year.

One of the chapters of the book provides a range of solutions to diverse deployment scenarios in the form of recipes. Each recipe describes a specific deployment challenge along with a Capistrano recipe that fulfills it. Although we have some recipes already written, I am looking for your contributions to make the book even better. I use Capistrano myself primarily to deploy 37signals’ applications, so with your contributions of recipes, the book can be far more expansive and cover a greater range of areas.

If you are interested in contributing, write up your recipe and send it via email to recipes@jamisbuck.org. The authors of recipes selected for inclusion in the book will be acknowledged in print in the book and will get a free signed copy of the book mailed to them when it is published.

When writing your recipe, bear the following points in mind:

• Each recipe should be under 1000 words
• Recipes should be submitted in plain text
• Keep your language direct and active. Don’t tell the reader what you are going to do, just do it.
• Each recipe should have a title such as ‘Deploy to Mongrel on Windows’. Keep the title short and to the point.

The deadline for all submissions is Sunday, April 16th.

Good luck! See below for the terms and conditions.