Automation
The Ruby on Rails development philosophy of Don’t Repeat Yourself (DRY) extends beyond pure code to the day-to-day activities of programmers themselves. Automation tools allow you to simplify common tasks, complex or simple procedures, or activities that should occur in a scheduled manner.
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Deploying Rails Apps with Capistrano without root or sudo Privileges
Tips on setting up your deployment so Capistrano doesn’t require sudo access.
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Fixing Capistrano 2.3.0 and Git Deploy Problem
How to get Capistrano 2.3 deploying happily with Git (issues existed due to dependency on the presence of tags).
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Making capistrano not suffocate on cleanup
Workaround for Capistrano (2.3) if you run in to “sudo: no passwd entry for app!” errors. Seems to impact deploy:cleanup.
- How to use git / github with capistrano
- Deploying with Capistrano -- Git Guides
- Rails Envy: Ruby on Rails Rake Tutorial (aka. How rake turned me into an alcoholic)
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Softies on Rails: The Absolute Moron's Guide to Capistrano
A very gentle introduction to Capistrano and how to get started.
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Sake Bomb!
Using rake system wide with the sake gem. Also includes a variety of useful rake tasks.
- Using the Rake Build Language
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Documentation (5)
- Watir - Overview
Watir is a simple open-source library for automating web browsers. It allows you to write tests that are easy to read and easy to maintain. It is optimized for simplicity and flexibility.
- Capistrano: Home
The Capistrano Home Page.
- Capistrano 2.3.0
Capistrano 2.3 announcement and new feature documentation.
- Rake -- Ruby Make
RDoc documentation for Rake.
- Rake User Guide
Groups (1)
Screencasts (3)
FAQs & Resource Lists (1)
- Capistrano in Ruby on Rails
Resource links for Capistrano on main Rails wiki.
Software (3)
- BlogFish: Webistrano - Capistrano deployment the easy way
A web-based interface to Capistrano. Open source.
- the { buckblogs :here }: Capistrano: Multistage
The Capistrano multistage extension permits easy targeting of multiple, staged development environments (e.g. development, staging, production servers).
- Capify.org
Official site for Capistrano
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