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A deployment automation tool built on Ruby, Rake, and SSH.

18 mentions on Hacker News by 18 people: 4 stories, 14 comments · first 2010-12-20 · latest 2026-02-06

Mentions per year 18 mentions · busiest year 2013 (6)
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  1. Ah, the memories of capistrano, complete with zero-downtime unicorn handover https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano/
    comment by lloeki · 2026-02-06 · in Things Unix can do atomically (2010)
  2. …some built in goodies like rollbacks. It's an oldie (pre-dockerize everything), but still useful. https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano You can start by deploying from your machine to simultaneously get it deploying across all your…
    comment by ac2u · 2023-07-28 · in Ask HN: Deploying my project on multiple servers?
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    Capistrano: A deployment automation tool built on Ruby, Rake, and SSH
    story by type0 · 2016-12-19 · 0 comments
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    Capistrano maintainers add new dependency to promote paid service
    story by yeasayer · 2016-04-29 · 42 comments
  5. …wiki for Github allows any text after the URL and then brings up the editing form and then save it. https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano/wiki/This-is-silly
    comment by kip_ · 2015-01-06 · in Capistrano's Borked
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    Capistrano's Borked
    story by monsterix · 2015-01-06 · 2 comments
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    Capistrano: Can't be MIT licensed any more
    story by jamesbritt · 2014-02-08 · 18 comments
  8. https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano/wiki/Upgrading-to-R...
    comment by zyang · 2013-10-06 · in Time to hand over the reins before Capistrano costs me my youth?
  9. …but its test coverage is plainly woeful. About 6 months back when 2.4.12 release was broken ( https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano/issues/434 ) I suggested to remove asset pre-compilation stuff from Capistrano. Capistrano is a general…
    comment by gnufied · 2013-10-06 · in Time to hand over the reins before Capistrano costs me my youth?
  10. Capistrano is great. https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano It's a bit much at first, but once you realize that it's basically just a build file with some handy functionality baked in, it's very useful. Here's an example of a deploy…
    comment by cheald · 2013-07-30 · in Show HN: better software deployment with Git
  11. Check out https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano and http://rubygems.org/gems/fabric
    comment by CiaranR · 2013-06-27 · in Poll: How often do you deploy to production?
  12. I use Capistrano ( https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano ) for our deployments for zero downtime. It's rails heavy (and requires ruby) but with tinkering I've also gotten it to deploy my Node and Go apps. The versioning system is great…
    comment by nemothekid · 2013-05-26 · in Ask HN: How do you deploy updates to web apps seamlessly?
  13. …Given we use github, huboard makes it easy to mange the issues Build: http://jenkins-ci.org/ and https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano Such a nice setup, we host our own jenkins server, I have seen some links above to Travis, might give…
    comment by codemoran · 2013-02-20 · in Ask HN: Tools of the trade, 2013 edition
  14. …our processses and Monit for process monitoring. All of them seamlessly work together. [1] https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano There is also nice gui frontend to it. You can do deployments through the web, with built in logging and…
    comment by netvarun · 2012-08-19 · in Take Time to Develop Fast
  15. Check out the Capistrano docs at https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano/wiki which are pretty comprehensive for getting started with Rails deployment.
    comment by sheff · 2012-02-09 · in The Ruby on Rails Tutorial, 2nd Edition (full draft)
  16. …use a PaaS for some reason, automate your deploys as much as possible, capistrano is a good start https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano/wiki . Also look through the list of Heroku addons for other services to make life easier, I use…
    comment by beck5 · 2012-01-15 · in Poll: Do you use app hosting or run your own server?
  17. …not sent any new requests, and once they finish their in-progress requests, they are killed. [0] https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano/wiki While most of the docs talk about rails, capistrano isn't ruby-specific. We use it to deploy…
    comment by mnutt · 2011-02-12 · in Continuous Deployment
  18. …//ph7spot.com/musings/getting-started-with-autotest You can run Capistrano for continuous deployment: https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano . If you wanted to go the extra mile you could also setup different staging environments on your…
    comment by fhirzall · 2010-12-20 · in Ask HN: How do you begin to build your new project?