I’m having trouble finding the benefit of using capistrano. I’m only
using rails for a very small blog. Sometime in the next year I do
expect to start using rails at work. What are the benefits of using
capistrano for small apps like my blog?
Charlie B.
http://www.recentrambles.com
On Mar 6, 2006, at 2:51 PM, Charlie B. wrote:
I’m having trouble finding the benefit of using capistrano. I’m only
using rails for a very small blog. Sometime in the next year I do
expect to start using rails at work. What are the benefits of using
capistrano for small apps like my blog?
The benefits are:
-
Consistent deployment. Your deployment process works the same time
after time, even when you start adding more resources to host it.
-
Standard practices. Your application is deployed using some
codified “best practices”.
Now, that doesn’t mean it is for everyone, but it works great for
lots of people. For a small, single-box application, the benefits
aren’t as obvious, though. We didn’t start feeling the need for
Capistrano until Basecamp began growing beyond it’s single host server.
Thanks, I think I’ll implement it now so that I’ll be prepared when I
“really” need it.
On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 06:56 +0900, Jamis B. wrote:
after time, even when you start adding more resources to host it.
Charlie B.
http://www.recentrambles.com
On Mar 6, 2006, at 4:23 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Forgive my ignorance, but what is capistrano? URL, please (Google
just
shows me a city somewhere in California…)
Capistrano is a utility for executing tasks in parallel on multiple
remote machines. The manual is located here:
http://manuals.rubyonrails.org/read/book/17
Hope that helps,
Forgive my ignorance, but what is capistrano? URL, please (Google just
shows me a city somewhere in California…)
[email protected] wrote:
Forgive my ignorance, but what is capistrano? URL, please (Google just
shows me a city somewhere in California…)
Makes me think of a flock of swallows flying in formation around a
tower… intentional, right?
Joel VanderWerf wrote:
Makes me think of a flock of swallows flying in formation around a
tower…
And eventually landing on the tower and relieving
themselves just before taking flight again…
There are still plenty of references to “SwitchTower” on that page, so
just to clarify:
SwitchTower is the same as Capistrano. Jamis changed the name due to a
trademark clash with another software product.
Jim