diff --git a/config/deploy/sample_config_files/apache_passenger.conf b/config/deploy/sample_config_files/apache_passenger.conf
deleted file mode 100644
index f97fc9b2a..000000000
--- a/config/deploy/sample_config_files/apache_passenger.conf
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-<VirtualHost *:80>
-
-    ServerName yourdomain.com
-    ServerAlias www.yourdomain.com
-    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
-
-    DocumentRoot /path/to/deploy_to/current/public
-
-    # RailsEnv production
-
-    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/yourdomain.error.log
-    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/yourdomain.access.log combined
-
-    <Directory "/path/to/deploy_to/current/public">
-        Options FollowSymLinks
-        Require all granted
-    </Directory>
-
-</VirtualHost>
diff --git a/config/deploy/sample_config_files/apache_unicorn.conf b/config/deploy/sample_config_files/apache_unicorn.conf
deleted file mode 100644
index 93aafec23..000000000
--- a/config/deploy/sample_config_files/apache_unicorn.conf
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-<VirtualHost *:80>
-
-  ServerAdmin admin@yourdomain.com
-  ServerName yourdomain.com
-  ServerAlias www.yourdomain.com
-
-  DocumentRoot /path/to/deploy_to/current/public
-
-  RewriteEngine On
-
-  <Proxy balancer://unicornservers>
-    BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:5000
-  </Proxy>
-
-  # Redirect all non-static requests to thin
-  RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
-  RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ balancer://unicornservers%{REQUEST_URI} [P,QSA,L]
-
-  ProxyPass / balancer://unicornservers/
-  ProxyPassReverse / balancer://unicornservers/
-  ProxyPreserveHost on
-
-  <Proxy *>
-    Order deny,allow
-    Allow from all
-  </Proxy>
-
-  ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/yourdomain.error.log
-  CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/yourdomain.access.log combined
-
-</VirtualHost>
diff --git a/config/deploy/sample_config_files/unicorn_init.sh b/config/deploy/sample_config_files/unicorn_init.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index 1cef9110b..000000000
--- a/config/deploy/sample_config_files/unicorn_init.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,96 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-### BEGIN INIT INFO
-# Provides:          unicorn
-# Required-Start:    $local_fs $remote_fs $network $syslog
-# Required-Stop:     $local_fs $remote_fs $network $syslog
-# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
-# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
-# Short-Description: starts the unicorn web server
-# Description:       starts unicorn
-### END INIT INFO
-
-set -e
-
-TIMEOUT=${TIMEOUT-60}
-APP_ROOT=<%= current_path %>
-PID_DIR=$APP_ROOT/tmp/pids
-PID=$PID_DIR/unicorn.pid
-CMD="cd $APP_ROOT;  bundle exec unicorn -D -c /path/to/shared/config/unicorn.rb -E production"
-AS_USER=deploy
-set -u
-
-OLD_PIN="$PID.oldbin"
-
-sig () {
-  test -s "$PID" && kill -$1 `cat $PID`
-}
-
-oldsig () {
-  test -s $OLD_PIN && kill -$1 `cat $OLD_PIN`
-}
-
-workersig () {
-  workerpid="$APP_ROOT/tmp/pids/unicorn.$2.pid"
-
-  test -s "$workerpid" && kill -$1 `cat $workerpid`
-}
-
-run () {
-  if [ "$(id -un)" = "$AS_USER" ]; then
-    eval $1
-  else
-    su -c "$1" - $AS_USER
-  fi
-}
-
-case "$1" in
-start)
-  sig 0 && echo >&2 "Already running" && exit 0
-  run "$CMD"
-  ;;
-stop)
-  sig QUIT && exit 0
-  echo >&2 "Not running"
-  ;;
-force-stop)
-  sig TERM && exit 0
-  echo >&2 "Not running"
-  ;;
-kill_worker)
-  workersig QUIT $2 && exit 0
-  echo >&2 "Worker not running"
-  ;;
-restart|reload)
-  sig USR2 && echo reloaded OK && exit 0
-  echo >&2 "Couldn't reload, starting '$CMD' instead"
-  run "$CMD"
-  ;;
-upgrade)
-  if sig USR2 && sleep 2 && sig 0 && oldsig QUIT
-  then
-    n=$TIMEOUT
-    while test -s $OLD_PIN && test $n -ge 0
-    do
-      printf '.' && sleep 1 && n=$(( $n - 1 ))
-    done
-    echo
-
-    if test $n -lt 0 && test -s $OLD_PIN
-    then
-      echo >&2 "$OLD_PIN still exists after $TIMEOUT seconds"
-      exit 1
-    fi
-    exit 0
-  fi
-  echo >&2 "Couldn't upgrade, starting '$CMD' instead"
-  run "$CMD"
-  ;;
-reopen-logs)
-  sig USR1
-  ;;
-*)
-  echo >&2 "Usage: $0 <start|stop|restart|upgrade|force-stop|reopen-logs>"
-  exit 1
-  ;;
-esac
diff --git a/config/deploy/shared/database.yml.erb b/config/deploy/shared/database.yml.erb
deleted file mode 100644
index 2449ae6f8..000000000
--- a/config/deploy/shared/database.yml.erb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-<%= fetch(:rails_env) %>:
-  adapter: postgresql
-  timeout: 5000
-  encoding: unicode
-  reconnect: false
-  database: <%= "#{fetch(:application)}" %>
-  pool: 5
-  username:
-  password:
-  host: <%= fetch(:db_server) %>
diff --git a/config/deploy/shared/log_rotation.erb b/config/deploy/shared/log_rotation.erb
deleted file mode 100755
index 7507de184..000000000
--- a/config/deploy/shared/log_rotation.erb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-<%= fetch(:deploy_to) %>/shared/log/*.log {
-    daily
-    missingok
-    rotate 52
-    compress
-    delaycompress
-    notifempty
-    sharedscripts
-    endscript
-    copytruncate
-}
diff --git a/config/deploy/shared/secrets.yml.erb b/config/deploy/shared/secrets.yml.erb
deleted file mode 100644
index 8f82c5dca..000000000
--- a/config/deploy/shared/secrets.yml.erb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-<%= fetch(:rails_env) %>:
-  secret_key_base: <%= ENV["SECRET_KEY_BASE"] %>
-  twitter_key: <%= ENV["TWITTER_KEY"] %>
-  twitter_secret: <%= ENV["TWITTER_SECRET"] %>
-  facebook_key: <%= ENV["FACEBOOK_KEY"] %>
-  facebook_secret: <%= ENV["FACEBOOK_SECRET"] %>
-  google_oauth2_key: <%= ENV["GOOGLE_KEY"] %>
-  google_oauth2_secret: <%= ENV["GOOGLE_SECRET"] %>
-  server_name: <%= fetch(:server_name) %>
diff --git a/config/deploy/shared/sidekiq.yml.erb b/config/deploy/shared/sidekiq.yml.erb
deleted file mode 100644
index 1d4747933..000000000
--- a/config/deploy/shared/sidekiq.yml.erb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-<%= fetch(:rails_env) %>:
-  :concurrency: <%= fetch(:sidekiq_concurrency, 5) %>
diff --git a/config/deploy/shared/unicorn.rb.erb b/config/deploy/shared/unicorn.rb.erb
deleted file mode 100755
index 805734276..000000000
--- a/config/deploy/shared/unicorn.rb.erb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
-root = "<%= current_path %>"
-working_directory root
-pid "#{root}/tmp/pids/unicorn.pid"
-stderr_path "#{root}/log/unicorn.log"
-stdout_path "#{root}/log/unicorn.log"
-
-listen 5000
-#listen "/tmp/unicorn.<%= fetch(:application) %>.sock"
-worker_processes 4
-timeout 40
-preload_app true
-
-# Force unicorn to look at the Gemfile in the current_path
-# otherwise once we've first started a master process, it
-# will always point to the first one it started.
-before_exec do |server|
-  ENV['BUNDLE_GEMFILE'] = "<%= current_path %>/Gemfile"
-end
-
-before_fork do |server, worker|
-   defined?(ActiveRecord::Base) and
-    ActiveRecord::Base.connection.disconnect!
-  # Quit the old unicorn process
-  old_pid = "#{server.config[:pid]}.oldbin"
-  if File.exists?(old_pid) && server.pid != old_pid
-    puts "We've got an old pid and server pid is not the old pid"
-    begin
-      Process.kill("QUIT", File.read(old_pid).to_i)
-      puts "killing master process (good thing tm)"
-    rescue Errno::ENOENT, Errno::ESRCH
-      puts "unicorn master already killed"
-    end
-  end
-end
-
-after_fork do |server, worker|
-  port = 5000 + worker.nr
-  child_pid = server.config[:pid].sub('.pid', ".#{port}.pid")
-  system("echo #{Process.pid} > #{child_pid}")
-   defined?(ActiveRecord::Base) and
-    ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection
-end
diff --git a/lib/capistrano/substitute_strings.rb b/lib/capistrano/substitute_strings.rb
deleted file mode 100755
index d4b244323..000000000
--- a/lib/capistrano/substitute_strings.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-# we often want to refer to variables which
-# are defined in subsequent stage files. This
-# let's us use the {{var}} to represent fetch(:var)
-# in strings which are only evaluated at runtime.
-
-def sub_strings(input_string)
-  output_string = input_string
-  input_string.scan(/{{(\w*)}}/).each do |var|
-    output_string.gsub!("{{#{var[0]}}}", fetch(var[0].to_sym))
-  end
-  output_string
-end
diff --git a/lib/capistrano/tasks/apache.cap b/lib/capistrano/tasks/apache.cap
deleted file mode 100755
index 3dfbced57..000000000
--- a/lib/capistrano/tasks/apache.cap
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-namespace :apache do
-  %w(start stop restart reload).each do |task_name|
-    desc "#{task } Apache"
-    task task_name do
-      on roles(:app), in: :sequence, wait: 5 do
-        sudo "/etc/init.d/apache2 #{task_name}"
-      end
-    end
-  end
-
-  desc "Enable site virual host"
-  task "enable_virtual_host" do
-    on roles(:app) do
-      "cd /etc/apache2/sites-available/"
-      sudo "a2ensite #{fetch(:server_name)}"
-    end
-  end
-
-  desc "Remove default Apache Virtual Host"
-  task "remove_default_vhost" do
-    on roles(:app) do
-      if test("[ -f /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf ]")
-      sudo "rm /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf"
-      puts "removed default Apache Virtualhost"
-      else
-        puts "No default Apache Virtualhost to remove"
-      end
-    end
-  end
-end
diff --git a/lib/capistrano/tasks/cache.cap b/lib/capistrano/tasks/cache.cap
deleted file mode 100644
index ce5bf88a2..000000000
--- a/lib/capistrano/tasks/cache.cap
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-namespace :cache do
-  desc "clears the cache in the servers"
-  task :clear do
-    on roles(:app) do |role|
-      within release_path do
-        with rails_env: fetch(:rails_env) do
-          execute :rake, "cache:clear"
-        end
-      end
-    end
-  end
-end
diff --git a/lib/capistrano/tasks/check_revision.cap b/lib/capistrano/tasks/check_revision.cap
deleted file mode 100755
index 12cf3390d..000000000
--- a/lib/capistrano/tasks/check_revision.cap
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-namespace :deploy do
-  desc "checks whether the currently checkout out revision matches the
-        remote one we're trying to deploy from"
-  task :check_revision do
-    branch = fetch(:branch)
-    unless `git rev-parse HEAD` == `git rev-parse origin/#{branch}`
-      puts "WARNING: HEAD is not the same as origin/#{branch}"
-      puts "Run `git push` to sync changes or make sure you've"
-      puts "checked out the branch: #{branch} as you can only deploy"
-      puts "if you've got the target branch checked out"
-      exit
-    end
-  end
-end
diff --git a/lib/capistrano/tasks/compile_assets_locally.cap b/lib/capistrano/tasks/compile_assets_locally.cap
deleted file mode 100755
index a39295451..000000000
--- a/lib/capistrano/tasks/compile_assets_locally.cap
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-namespace :deploy do
-  desc "compiles assets locally then rsyncs"
-  task :compile_assets_locally do
-    run_locally do
-      execute "RAILS_ENV=#{fetch(:rails_env)} bundle exec rake assets:precompile"
-    end
-    on roles(:app) do |role|
-      run_locally do
-        execute"rsync -av --delete ./public/assets/ #{role.user}@#{role.hostname}:#{release_path}/public/assets/;"
-      end
-      "chmod -R 755 #{release_path}/public/assets/"
-    end
-    run_locally do
-      execute "rm -rf ./public/assets"
-    end
-  end
-end
diff --git a/lib/capistrano/tasks/logs.cap b/lib/capistrano/tasks/logs.cap
deleted file mode 100755
index 7bbfac2e4..000000000
--- a/lib/capistrano/tasks/logs.cap
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-namespace :logs do
-  task :tail, :file do |t, args|
-    if args[:file]
-      on roles(:app) do
-        execute "tail -f #{shared_path}/log/#{args[:file]}.log"
-      end
-    else
-      puts "please specify a logfile e.g: 'rake logs:tail[logfile]"
-      puts "will tail 'shared_path/log/logfile.log'"
-      puts "remember if you use zsh you'll need to format it as:"
-      puts "rake 'logs:tail[logfile]' (single quotes)"
-    end
-  end
-end
diff --git a/lib/capistrano/tasks/run_tests.cap b/lib/capistrano/tasks/run_tests.cap
deleted file mode 100755
index 32f26f9ce..000000000
--- a/lib/capistrano/tasks/run_tests.cap
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-namespace :deploy do
-  desc "Runs test before deploying, can't deploy unless they pass"
-  task :run_tests do
-    test_log = "log/capistrano.test.log"
-    tests = fetch(:tests)
-    tests.each do |test|
-      puts "--> Running tests: '#{test}', please wait ..."
-      unless system "bundle exec rspec #{test} > #{test_log} 2>&1"
-        puts "--> Tests: '#{test}' failed. Results in: #{test_log} and below:"
-        system "cat #{test_log}"
-        exit;
-      end
-      puts "--> '#{test}' passed"
-    end
-    puts "--> All tests passed"
-    system "rm #{test_log}"
-  end
-end
diff --git a/lib/capistrano/tasks/setup_config.cap b/lib/capistrano/tasks/setup_config.cap
deleted file mode 100755
index 27ba96a12..000000000
--- a/lib/capistrano/tasks/setup_config.cap
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-namespace :deploy do
-  task :setup_config do
-    on roles(:app) do
-      # make the config dir
-      execute :mkdir, "-p #{shared_path}/config"
-      full_app_name = fetch(:full_app_name)
-
-      # config files to be uploaded to shared/config, see the
-      # definition of smart_template for details of operation.
-      # Essentially looks for #{filename}.erb in deploy/#{full_app_name}/
-      # and if it isn't there, falls back to deploy/#{shared}. Generally
-      # everything should be in deploy/shared with params which differ
-      # set in the stage files
-      config_files = fetch(:config_files)
-      config_files.each do |file|
-        smart_template file
-      end
-
-      # symlink stuff which should be... symlinked
-      symlinks = fetch(:symlinks)
-
-      symlinks.each do |symlink|
-        sudo "ln -nfs #{shared_path}/config/#{symlink[:source]} #{sub_strings(symlink[:link])}"
-      end
-    end
-  end
-end
diff --git a/lib/capistrano/tasks/upload_secrets.cap b/lib/capistrano/tasks/upload_secrets.cap
deleted file mode 100644
index e8b75bfcf..000000000
--- a/lib/capistrano/tasks/upload_secrets.cap
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-namespace :deploy do
-  desc "rsyncs local config/secrets.yml file"
-  task :upload_secrets do
-    on roles(:app) do |role|
-      run_locally do
-        execute"rsync -av ./config/secrets.yml #{role.user}@#{role.hostname}:#{shared_path}/config/secrets.yml;"
-      end
-      "chmod -R 755 #{shared_path}/config/secrets.yml"
-      execute "ln -nfs #{shared_path}/config/secrets.yml #{current_path}/config/secrets.yml"
-    end
-  end
-end
diff --git a/lib/capistrano/template.rb b/lib/capistrano/template.rb
deleted file mode 100755
index 07bd0be37..000000000
--- a/lib/capistrano/template.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-# will first try and copy the file:
-# config/deploy/#{full_app_name}/#{from}.erb
-# to:
-# shared/config/to
-# if the original source path doesn exist then it will
-# search in:
-# config/deploy/shared/#{from}.erb
-# this allows files which are common to all enviros to
-# come from a single source while allowing specific
-# ones to be over-ridden
-# if the target file name is the same as the source then
-# the second parameter can be left out
-def smart_template(from, to=nil)
-  to ||= from
-  full_to_path = "#{shared_path}/config/#{to}"
-  if from_erb_path = template_file(from)
-    from_erb = StringIO.new(ERB.new(File.read(from_erb_path)).result(binding))
-    upload! from_erb, full_to_path
-    info "copying: #{from_erb} to: #{full_to_path}"
-  else
-    error "error #{from} not found"
-  end
-end
-
-def template_file(name)
-  if File.exist?((file = "config/deploy/#{fetch(:full_app_name)}/#{name}.erb"))
-    return file
-  elsif File.exist?((file = "config/deploy/shared/#{name}.erb"))
-    return file
-  end
-  return nil
-end