Create your new rails project

rails new myapp
cd myapp

Get git initialized

git init

Edit your .gitignore file to include some more options

vi .gitignore

Add this:

# Added from https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/master/Rails.gitignore
*.rbc
*.sassc
.sass-cache
capybara-*.html
.rspec
/.bundle
/vendor/bundle
/log/*
/tmp/*
/db/*.sqlite3
/public/system/*
/coverage/
/spec/tmp/*
**.orig
rerun.txt
pickle-email-*.html

Now add the files to git and commit

git add .
git commit -a -m 'initial commit'

Edit your Gemfile and uncomment capistrano then run:

bundle install

Now we’re gonna “capify” the application, run:

capify .

You should see this output:

[add] writing './Capfile'
[add] writing './config/deploy.rb'
[done] capified!

Capistrano logs into your production servers and checks out the latest version of your production branch, we need to get our app onto a scm server that the production server has access to. I’m going to use bitbucket.org as the example, but it could be anywhere.

git remote add origin https://bitbucket.org/my-user-name/myapp.git
git push origin master