Captor: A Capistrano GUI

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Tagscapistrano, ruby, programming
Posted
Wed 8 Oct, 2008
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Here’s an idea I’ve been playing with today: Captor, a GUI for Capistrano management. It’s a very rough prototype right now.

Goals:

  • Make running tasks across multiple projects easier
  • Interpret the output from Capistrano graphically so it’s easier to understand
  • Secondary: Provide a wizard-like interface for creating Capistrano files, with recipe management and configuration

Caveats:

  • The prototype is messy because I can’t get Shoes to load net/ssh (I get openssl errors), so I’m using drb to communicate with cap
  • There’s no project settings management yet, but that will be easy to add
  • The interface isn’t cool enough yet

Read my notes on the project


Paul Paradise

Oct 8

Another take on the capistrano GUI is <a href="http://labs.peritor.com/webistrano">webistrano</a> - but it's just a rails app wrapping around it, rather than shoes.

alex

Oct 8

That looks really cool, thanks Paul

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