In which I show how to easily update Twitter with deploy notices that include the environment and revision.
Double Shot #558
I’m getting too old for these late nights.
Caliper – From Devver.net, a simple way to run metric_fu on any project with an accessible git repo.
cap-recipes – A collection of capistrano recipes for managing things like delayed job and whenever and passenger.
Gem Building is Defunct – At GitHub, anyhow. They’re throwing their weight behind Gemcutter.
The Invoice...
Double Shot #553
Bad ways to wake up #317: Spend an hour disassembling a 24″ monitor to fix a broken power button.
Chicago Boss – “The no-nonsense MVC framework for Erlang”. High on hype and buzzwords, but I don’t see any ponies. Not switching till I get ponies.
Dynamically filling capistrano roles via puppet’s stored config db – An interesting...
Double Shot #534
I pulled the trigger and upgraded my main dev box to Snow Leopard. Took about 12 hours including some false starts, but all appears to be well.
Growl 1.2b2 – With Snow Leopard compatibility for GrowlMail.
Capistrano: Make sure there is something to deploy - Tip passed on by Matt Darby.
openid_engine – Rails engine wrapper around the...
Double Shot #520
Offline for a chunk of the day, just for a change. Still, a few links before I go.
Clickistrano – Sinatra-backed web UI for Capistrano deployments.
YARD sale clearance – Thoughtbot has pushed the documentation for Clearance out to rdoc.info.
What Am I About to Merge (with Git)? – Aaron Longwell demonstrates a shortcut for figuring out what’s...
Double Shot #512
Lots of people are excited about Rails and 37Signals being mentioned in Microsoft’s annual Form 10-K. I think that’s just silly. This isn’t any sort of acknowledgement that Microsoft considers us a serious threat; it’s a “cover your ass” survey of software and firms whose business overlaps that of Microsoft. For some perspective, go look...
Net::SSH, Capistrano, and Saying Goodbye
It is with mixed emotions that I announce two things this evening.
First, I’m announcing the final release of both Net::SSH (2.0.11) and Capistrano (2.5.5). Both are minor changes: Net::SSH 2.0.11 adds support for a :key_data option, so you can supply raw PEM-formatted key data. Capistrano 2.5.5 enhances the role() method so you can now declare...
Launching Ruby on Rails projects, a checklist
As mentioned in a recent post, I’m hoping to share some lessons that were learned throughout the process of launching a client project. Over the past few years, we’ve been part of several dozen client projects and the big launch date is always an anxiety-filled, yet exciting point for the client and our team....
Capistrano 2.5.0
Capistrano 2.5.0 is now available! You can read the full release announcement on the capify.org news blog.
Cap 1.4.1? Go 1.4.2. Now.
Are you currently using Capistrano 1.4.1? If so, drop everything (I mean it, do this RIGHT NOW) and install Capistrano 1.4.2.
Why, you ask?
Capistrano 1.4.1 will work just fine, right up until you decide you want to experiment with C...
Expanding Rails Boxcar packages
If you’re in the market for a new hosting provider for your Ruby on Rails application, you might take a look at the new options for Rails Boxcar. We recently expanded our service offerings into three pricing tiers as well as custom packages for those who need a bit more.
A few...
Capistrano Off the Beaten Path
Introduction
If you use Capistrano, most likely you use it to deploy rails applications by running it from the project directory. The plugem management tool piggy-backs on Capistrano to execute some recipes without using the current path because recip...
