astrovan

simple, lightweight deployment tasks

WHY?

First, I want to say that I’m not doing this because I don’t like capistrano.

I do like (ok, love) capistrano, but think that it can maybe be done a bit more simply.

This is my attempt.

Installation

    $ script/plugin install git://github.com/sbfaulkner/astrovan.git

Sample recipes

Update only

    require 'astrovan'

    using 'www.example.com' do
      deploy 'git://github.com/sbfaulkner/scanty.git'
    end

CHANGES

0.6.1

• change deploy method’s :deploy_to option to simply :to

0.6.0

• initialize and update submodules after cloning the application

0.5.9

• add render method

0.5.8

• add put and upload file transfer methods

0.5.7

• fix bug when symlink to directory already exists

0.5.6

• support for specification of git and rake command paths

0.5.5

• change working directory for rake tasks

0.5.4

• handle github private repository urls

TODO

• prevent/allow overwrite by put/upload
• stdin handling for exec
• stdout/stderr handling for exec
• other commands (all using exec)
  • cp ?
  • mv ?
• move magic vars into separate context to avoid collision with method names
  • e.g. rake method and rake var collision forces access of environment[:rake] instead of self.rake

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Source code

github repository