Remembering git commit, tag, release information for display at runtime

[Tom Harrison]

Versions:

• Ruby: 2.1.4
• Capistrano: 3.x (latest)
• Rake / Rails / etc: Rails 4.1 

Platform:

• Working on.... OS X
• Deploying to... CentOS / AWS

We're deploying one service as part of a larger system.  Each service (and environment therein) needs to be able to report its current version based on git (github) info, e.g. commit hash, tag, and/or release version ... at runtime -- a common interface for all services.  Other info like OS version, ruby/rails, database and other information can be queried at runtime ... or at deploy time and saved.

I see that there's a file written, revisions.log at the top level of the app, and also see there's a /repo directory, but this is not within the scope of what my app can access.

I probably just want to write a YAML or JSON file with all of the info I might need.

Question 1: does anyone know of an existing extension that does this kind of thing?

Question 2: any pointers or references I can jump off from?

Thanks

Tom

[Lee Hambley]

We write a REVISION file into the target directory, why can't you use that?

Lee Hambley

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[Tom Harrison]

Thanks Lee --

I saw this -- the file is not accessible to the web server.  

It's straightforward to write my own task to write information to a suitable location (actually, I want a whole lot more: OS, database info, external service dependencies, etc), the REVISIONS file was a helpful pattern to follow.

Tom

[Lee Hambley]

Great Tom, glad you have everything you need!

Lee Hambley

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