vlad version 1.4.0 has been released!

Vlad the Deployer is pragmatic application deployment automation, without mercy. Much like Capistrano, but with 1/10th the complexity. Vlad integrates seamlessly with Rake, and uses familiar and standard tools like ssh and rsync.

Impale your application on the heartless spike of the Deployer.

Changes:

1.4.0 / 2009-06-23

• 1 major enhancement:

  • Switched to passenger as default app server.

• 11 minor enhancements:

  • #rsync now takes ANY number of arguments and expects to you add "host:".
  • Added Rake::RemoteTask#get.
  • Added doco for why we don't ship a deploy task
  • Added links to example maintenance recipes
  • Added multi-env doco to getting_started.txt
  • Added svn-over-ssh faq item. gah.
  • Flipped tests to minitest
  • Merged global #role and Rake::RemoteTask::role.
  • Moved all global methods to Rake::RemoteTask and wrote #external to clean up.
  • Moved rake extensions to hoe so everyone can enjoy the fun.
  • put names the tempfile based on the remote path to ease debugging

• 2 bug fixes:

  • passenger:startapp wasn't using the latestrelease path
  • set/fetch wasn't dealing with a default of false well. (Seth Falcon)

• http://rubyhitsquad.com/

• http://rubyforge.org/projects/hitsquad/