deploy:link_shared_paths

Creates symbolic links to paths in shared_paths setting. This setting is not to be confused with shared_path that specifies the directory path where files are shared between releases.

Invoke this as a subtask in your config/deploy.rb.

require 'mina/git'

# ... settings here
set :shared_paths, ['config/database.yml', 'config/s3.yml']

task :deploy do
  deploy do
    invoke 'git:clone'
    invoke 'deploy:link_shared_paths'
    # In this case, symlinks config/database.yml and
    # config/s3.yml are created in the release path
    # that points to their corresponding files in the
    # shared_path directory.
    # ...
  end
  # ...
end