Cutting Edge Capistrano, Jamis Buck

14:00 Cutting Edge Capistrano, Jamis Buck

Just what _is_ Capistrano?
* A deployment environment
* Borrows heavily from rake
* But much more
* Just released v1.2 this morning

New features
* Restricting scope via HOSTS and ROLES
* The invoke task
* The shell task – highly experimental

capistrano-ext
* watch_load
* uptime

Other improvements
* Connecting in parallel
* Support for pid-based spawner/reaper setups
* setup, update_code, rollback_code work on _all_ servers
* :except clause to mirror :only

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