Can I use Capistrano from a windows dev machine to deploy to a Linux server? This is for a rails app.
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I think you can, capistrano is a gem, so should install on windows machine too. Yes, this is definitely possible, I did too a long time ago. Should work similar as on linux or mac osx.
dombesz
2010-09-28 16:48:21
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Capistrano don't use some system command where you launch the capistrano command. So it's completly OS-agnostic
shingara
2010-09-28 16:54:29
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You can, I'm doing it now.
However I've found one issue - that it's difficult or impossible to set up SSH using a stored key, meaning that you have to type your SSH password into the deployment script manually (or store the password in your Capistrano script - as this gets uploaded to your server, don't do this!). I can't remember exactly what the issue is, but if I remember right, the guy who maintains Capistrano doesn't use Windows and isn't interested in investigating the issue.
When I get some time, I'm intending to get Capistrano running from within Cygwin - I already have password-less SSH to my hosting server working within Cygwin, and I believe Capistrano running from within there should just work.
SamStephens
2010-09-29 22:37:22