I'm one of the creators of this (we're the same people behind <a href="http://roots.io" rel="nofollow">http://roots.io</a>) so I'm happy to answer any questions. We're just trying to make developing WordPress sites a little more bearable :)
Interesting. It looks like this completely circumvents the normal user-configurable WordPress plugins and update architecture, such that the only way to change anything is to update it in the source tree and redeploy like you would with a normal monolithic app. I feel like this might be kinda impractical for a lot of the cases where you would normally want to use WordPress, but I suppose in the right situation it would be nifty.
It's not a big deal, but in case you weren't aware:<p><a href="http://bedrocklinux.org" rel="nofollow">http://bedrocklinux.org</a><p>It was posted here a few months ago: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6504878" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6504878</a>
Looks nice. Special kudos for managing much of the wp-config though the built in config constants.<p>Only thing I don't like is the renaming of the root `wp-config` folder to `app`. I'd much rather have the app reflect the underlying wordpress conventions than to change it to look like something else. Yeah, consistency, but boo for barrier of entry or having to remember that `app` == `wp-config` when not everything we get to work on will get to use the shiny fandangled tool.
I've been using a similar setup with Pomander and the Pomander-Wordpress plugin. It's got a similar setup, but is 100% PHP-based, so I don't need to have ruby on all my servers. Been using it in production on about 15 servers for well over a year, and I'm pretty happy with it.<p><a href="http://ripeworks.com/pomander/wordpress.html" rel="nofollow">http://ripeworks.com/pomander/wordpress.html</a>
Is it possible to still use the Composer-goodness of this stack with your own deployment (or something like ftploy)?<p>How do you guys handle database syncing / deployment / rollback (if at all)?
Any thoughts on creating docker images as alternative to capistrano ? There's a couple of projects that can help on it (a Dockerfile could help on it) Good job :)