A drop-n replacement for Capistrano so you can run tasks in Webistrano from your command line just using the cap command.

Installation

gem install mattmatt-cap-ext-webistrano

Usage

You can still use the capify command to generate the initial files required by Capistrano.

In your Capfile, insert the following lines at the end.

gem 'mattmatt-cap-ext-webistrano'
require 'cap_ext_webistrano'

The Webistrano extensions require a couple of configuration options that you can specify in your deploy.rb. They're pretty much the standard options you'd configure for your application with Capistrano.

set :application,     "My project" # The project as named in Webistrano
set :user,            "admin"
set :password,        "admin"
set :stage,           "test" # specify the stage you want to deploy
set :webistrano_home, "http://webistrano.mydomain.com"

If you only have one stage in your project this should do, however with several stages it'd be better to ask for the stage to be deployed:

set :stage do
  Capistrano::CLI.ui.ask "Specify the stage to deploy: "
end

You can ask for the password too:

set :password do
    Capistrano::CLI.password_prompt "Enter the deploy password: "
end

Optionally, you can specify configuration that you had setup webistrano to prompt it:

set :prompt_config, { :password => 'mysecretpassword' }

Changes

Added support for prompt configuration (Lucas Mundim)
Restore prefix_options hash as Active Resource lost it when reload method is called (Lucas Mundim)
Solved "regular expression too big" exception error on large string output (Michael Lim)
Workaround to solve bug in @deployment.reload() not loading the site url correctly (Michael Lim)

License

Released under the MIT license.