Informal poll

[Scott Shea]

Trying to pick a code deployment tool (e.g. Capistrano) and wanted to get input from others in the group. What do you suggest/prefer?

[Brian Sam-Bodden]

Capistrano is still the front runner. Very simple yet powerful.

On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Scott Shea <scott....@gmail.com> wrote:

Trying to pick a code deployment tool (e.g. Capistrano) and wanted to get input from others in the group. What do you suggest/prefer?

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[Brent Rowland]

Mina. We still use Capistrano a lot, but it's far too magical, making it difficult to debug or do custom things.

Also, Mina is a hell of a lot faster.

http://nadarei.co/mina/

Brent

On Mar 20, 2013, at 1:54 PM, Scott Shea wrote:

Trying to pick a code deployment tool (e.g. Capistrano) and wanted to get input from others in the group. What do you suggest/prefer?

[Brian Sam-Bodden]

Although I have to say mina looks sweet... more Rake-ish and therefore more Rubyish.

[Chad Woolley]

Capistrano.  I rarely need to debug it or do custom things.

Also, "cap shell" is a powerful tool to perform interactive commands across multiple servers, especially if you haven't got on the Chef/Puppet devops automation bandwagon.  Didn't see a feature like that in Mina...

But, cap does have it's downsides.  As in it's not fast - you end up doing silly things like trying to pack multiple commands into a single SSH invocation by concatenating them with a bunch of &&, just to speed up the deploy by eliminating multiple ssh calls.  Kinda lame, if Mina solves this (does it?), it may be a good alternative for deploy only, but keep cap around too for stuff like cap shell (it's easy to configure all your servers/roles if that's all you use it for).

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On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Brent Rowland <brent....@gmail.com> wrote:

[Brent Rowland]

Mina generates a shell script and executes in a single ssh session, making it very fast. You can dump the script to stdout if you like for debugging purposes and to audit what's about to happen if you have any doubts.

It still didn't come with support for svn last I looked, but I was able to add that myself with a handful of lines.

cap shell sounds handy. Come to think about it, I haven't yet used Mina against multiple servers simultaneously. We're still using capistrano for our larger apps.

Brent

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[Preston Lee]

I still use cap for many things as well, though have the same gripes as Chad. And although it's not exactly elegant in number of ways, it does work. I'll definitely have to give mina a serious shot.

Preston

[Paul Mooring]

A little late to the party but I like Chef for deployment (no surprise there right?)  It would probably be overkill for just deployment, but if you need to manage servers as well as deploy your app I am a big advocate of combing those "devops" style.  If that interests you it's worth taking a look at the deploy resource in Chef: http://docs.opscode.com/resource_deploy.html  If you have no interest or need to manage servers with Chef, than I would lean towards Capistrano. 

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[Elio Grieco]

Capistrano is fine unless you actually know a bit about ssh, have your own ~/.ssh/config file and use more than 1 key. Then Capistrano falls flat on its face since Net::SSH totally disregards the ssh config file. (Last I checked anyway)

Mina sounds pretty awesome. Have not used it though.

I used Vlad the Deployer years ago and then its successor rake-remote_task:

https://github.com/seattlerb/rake-remote_task

Remote Task is a bit more freeform than Capistrano, great for really simple stuff or highly customized and specific. Not as much for plain vanilla Rails deploys.

Elio Grieco
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[Paul Mooring]

I can't speak for Capistrano, but the Net::SSH library definitely can honor the ssh config file using the Net::SSH::Config class.  I know we use Net::SSH for Chef/knife and it works fine with my more than a little conveluted multiple keys and relay hosts ~/.ssh/config file.

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Paul Mooring

Systems Engineer and Customer Advocate

www.opscode.com

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[Chad Woolley]

Capistrano observes your SSH config just fine.  I use aliases in the config, and multiple keys via the config and/or keyring.

[Bob]

I started using git-deploy for my Rails deployments and love it.

[Irish]

I use Capistrano personally, never have had a problem with it.  But there are many alternatives, so this may be a helpful list.

https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/categories/deployment_automation

On Wednesday, March 20, 2013 1:54:40 PM UTC-7, Scott Shea wrote: