Ruby Deployment and Engine Yard as a Service »

Created at: 18.11.2008 22:54, source: Brainspl.at, tagged: cloud deployment

I gave a talk today at the #prorubyconf on Ruby Deployment, past present and future. You can view my slides below.

We will start doing some private beta testing of our new EY platform in December so let me know if you want to beta test and havce some interesting apps to run in the cloud.

Ruby Deployment

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Post deployment log to Basecamp »

Created at: 05.04.2008 17:53, source: poocs.net - Home, tagged: rails basecamp capistrano deployment git rails

I guess many of you have been reading the recent Signal vs. Noise blog post titled Using Basecamp to automatically keep track of product releases. I found it rather inspiring so I started to work on something similar for my own projects.

Out of that effort comes a super simple Capistrano plugin that grabs the first line from each commit (the subject in Git lingo) that happened between the last deploy and the current one and posts it as a new message to a pre-defined project (and category) on your Basecamp account using the Basecamp API.

Installation

$ cd <yourapp>/vendor/plugins
$ git clone git@github.com:scoop/basecamp_notify.git

It automatically hooks itself into your deployment process after deploy:symlink has run. Here’s a direct link to the GitHub repository.

If you don’t have git, you can download a tarball from GitHub, but read the caveat in the next section.

Configuration

The download ships with an example YAML configuration that needs to go into <yourapp>/config/basecamp.yml. It takes your Basecamp URL, username, and password as well as the numeric IDs for the project and category to post to, respectively.

Caveat: Since I wanted a fairly concise output in my posted messages (resembling what 37signals has in their example), I used a special command-line argument formatting thingamagick that only Git understands, so the plugin could be considered Git-only for now. Feel free to send in a patch that does the same for subversion.

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