Vlad 1.4.0 Released

vlad version 1.4.0 has been released!

Vlad the Deployer is pragmatic application deployment automation,
without mercy. Much like Capistrano, but with 1/10th the
complexity. Vlad integrates seamlessly with Rake, and uses familiar
and standard tools like ssh and rsync.

Impale your application on the heartless spike of the Deployer.

Changes:

1.4.0 / 2009-06-23

  • 1 major enhancement:

    • Switched to passenger as default app server.
  • 11 minor enhancements:

    • #rsync now takes ANY number of arguments and expects to you add
      “host:”.
    • Added Rake::RemoteTask#get.
    • Added doco for why we don’t ship a deploy task
    • Added links to example maintenance recipes
    • Added multi-env doco to getting_started.txt
    • Added svn-over-ssh faq item. gah.
    • Flipped tests to minitest
    • Merged global #role and Rake::RemoteTask::role.
    • Moved all global methods to Rake::RemoteTask and wrote #external to
      clean up.
    • Moved rake extensions to hoe so everyone can enjoy the fun.
    • put names the tempfile based on the remote path to ease debugging
  • 2 bug fixes:

    • passenger:start_app wasn’t using the latest_release path
    • set/fetch wasn’t dealing with a default of false well. (Seth Falcon)