This guide will help you setup your server and Rails 3.1 project for fast, zero-downtime deployments. I’ll be using Nginx+Unicorn to serve the application, git+capistrano for fast deployments.

At GitHub, we do not use git-flow. We use, and always have used, a much simpler Git workflow.

learn the basics

Dulwich is a pure-Python implementation of the Git file formats and protocols.

Octopress is a framework designed by Brandon Mathis for Jekyll, the blog aware static site generator powering Github Pages. To start blogging with with Jekyll, you have to write your own HTML templates, CSS, Javascripts and set up your configuration. But with Octopress All of that is already taken care of. Simply clone or fork Octopress, install dependencies and the theme, and you’re set.