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

gem install mattmatt-cap-ext-webistrano

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' }

• 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)

(c) 2009 Mathias Meyer

Released under the MIT license.