# \[ANN\] Webistrano 1.3 released

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**Created:** [April 29, 2008, 7:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-webistrano-1-3-released/136194 "2008-04-29T19:05:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 29, 2008, 7:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-webistrano-1-3-released/136194/1 "2008-04-29T19:05:59Z")

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Cheers,

I’m proud to announce Webistrano 1.3.

[http://labs.peritor.com/webistrano/](http://labs.peritor.com/webistrano/)

Webistrano is a Web UI for managing Capistrano deployments. It lets you  
manage projects and their stages like test, production, and staging with  
different settings. Those stages can then be deployed with Capistrano  
through Webistrano.

The 1.3 adds several new shiny features to Webistrano that make  
deployment easier:

```
 * Better Git support through Capistrano 2.2
 * Support for Phusion Passenger / mod_rails
 * Ability to temporary disable hosts for a deployment
 * A command-line interface with script/deploy
 * A simple permission system

```

The complete changelog is available through the Webistrano project site.  
[http://labs.peritor.com/webistrano/browser/branches/1.3/CHANGELOG.txt](http://labs.peritor.com/webistrano/browser/branches/1.3/CHANGELOG.txt)

One very often demanded feature is the ability to temporary disable a  
host for a deployment. This is helpful when you want to deploy a stage  
without changing the stage configuration even if one or more hosts are  
down. Another scenario is when you want to execute a task only on a  
limited set of servers.

The script/deploy command is a nice little gem, especially useful if you  
want to script Webistrano:

$ ruby script/deploy  
Usage: deploy [options] project stage  
-h, --help This message  
-e, --environment=ENV RAILS\_ENV for Webistrano (default:  
production)  
-u, --username=NAME Webistrano username to use  
(default: admin)  
-t, --task=NAME Capistrano task to invoke  
(default: deploy)  
-d, --description=TEXT Deployment comment for Webistrano  
records

Further, Webistrano now offers built-in tasks for managing mod\_rails  
deployments. It will override the default deploy tasks and ask for the  
necessary configuration entries so that using mod\_rails becomes even  
easier.

Webistrano 1.3 can be downloaded here.

[http://labs.peritor.com/webistrano/wiki/Download](http://labs.peritor.com/webistrano/wiki/Download)

Webistrano is BSD-licensed and the project site is open for everybody.  
Please see the project page for more documentation and screenshots.  
There are even some screencasts.

[http://labs.peritor.com/webistrano/](http://labs.peritor.com/webistrano/)

Jonathan

–  
Jonathan W.  
[http://blog.innerewut.de](http://blog.innerewut.de)  
[http://twitter.com/jweiss](http://twitter.com/jweiss)