# \[ANN\] Webistrano - A Web UI for managing Capistrano deployme

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-webistrano-a-web-ui-for-managing-capistrano-deployme/113176>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 28, 2007, 12:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-webistrano-a-web-ui-for-managing-capistrano-deployme/113176 "2007-08-28T12:52:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![waddilove](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/b5ac83/32.png) [@waddilove](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/waddilove)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2007, 12:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-webistrano-a-web-ui-for-managing-capistrano-deployme/113176/1 "2007-08-28T12:52:58Z")

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I’m happy to announce the release of Webistrano - a Web UI for managing  
Capistrano deployments.

Webistrano is an internal application that I developed at Peritor for  
the easy handling of Capistrano deployments. I often had situations  
where our designer updated some images and wanted to update/deploy our  
Rails project. Capistrano offers a nice command line interface for doing  
this but this is not the right tool for a designer, especially if you  
have a complicated multi-stage environment with production, staging and  
test settings.

Further we wanted to be able to keep track of who deployed what when to  
which servers.

This is where Webistrano enters the stage.

Webistrano is a Ruby on Rails application that manages projects with  
their different stages (like production or testing) and leverages  
Capistrano to handle the deployment part. This way it is very easy to  
handle multi-stage and multi-client situations and keep an eye on all  
deployments. It further includes a simple email alerting system so that  
you get pinged if somebody deploys to the production servers.

We are using Webistrano for quite some time now and it has proven stable  
for our needs. I am releasing it under the BSD license. The Subversion  
repository is located at Rubyforge.

On the project page you can find two screencasts that show you how to  
get Webistrano running and explain some advanced concepts.

More information can be found here:

[http://blog.innerewut.de/webistrano/](http://blog.innerewut.de/webistrano/)

There is also an intro screencast:

[http://blog.innerewut.de/files/webistrano/screencasts/webistrano.mov](http://blog.innerewut.de/files/webistrano/screencasts/webistrano.mov)

I presented Webistrano last month at the Berlin Ruby U. Group (then  
under the name ‘Webcap’) and the feedback was quite positive. I’d love  
to hear your feedback and suggestions.

Jonathan

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

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**Author:** ![waddilove](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/b5ac83/32.png) [@waddilove](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/waddilove)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2007, 10:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-webistrano-a-web-ui-for-managing-capistrano-deployme/113176/2 "2007-08-29T10:15:54Z")

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Jonathan W. wrote:

> I’m happy to announce the release of Webistrano - a Web UI for managing  
> Capistrano deployments.

Jonathan,

This looks fantastic! I’m sure it will come in useful in our team for  
managing deployments.

Cheers,

Tom

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**Author:** ![waddilove](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/b5ac83/32.png) [@waddilove](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/waddilove)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2007, 11:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-webistrano-a-web-ui-for-managing-capistrano-deployme/113176/3 "2007-08-29T23:53:43Z")

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Jonathan W. wrote:

> …I’d love  
> to hear your feedback and suggestions.

I’ve looked at it, and I’m planning to try it out as soon as I have  
time. From what I’ve seen so far, it’s a lovely piece of work.

I’ll be sure to share whatever I find out.

–Al Evans

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**Author:** ![waddilove](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/b5ac83/32.png) [@waddilove](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/waddilove)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 3:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-webistrano-a-web-ui-for-managing-capistrano-deployme/113176/4 "2007-08-30T15:51:33Z")

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Jonathan,  
When I went to it early Thursday morning, both links you offer are  
DEAD?  
Kathy

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**Author:** ![waddilove](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/b5ac83/32.png) [@waddilove](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/waddilove)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 3:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ann-webistrano-a-web-ui-for-managing-capistrano-deployme/113176/5 "2007-08-30T15:58:35Z")

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Hi Kathy,

removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid wrote:

> Jonathan,  
> When I went to it early Thursday morning, both links you offer are  
> DEAD?  
> Kathy

The was a small DNS problem, everything should be working again.

Jonathan

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