Brian, Capistrano cannot deploy _to_ Windows, although it can deploy_from_ Windows. This is because cap requires an ssh server on the remote host, and a POSIX shell that it can communicate with. If, somehow, you have a windows machine that meets those requirements (perhaps via cygwin or something) then you might have a chance of using cap to deploy to windows, but I've never used it that way.
I do understand that you don't always have a choice of deployment environments, and if someone were to come up with a slick way to support windows without overly complicating Capistrano, I might consider it, but I'm certainly not the man to do the dirty work myself. Not only am I lacking the Windows expertise, but I'm severly lacking the passion, too. :) - Jamis On 6/25/07, Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm having a hard time tracking down the current state of Capistrano's > ability to deploy *to* Windows machines. The wiki at > http://capify.stikipad.com/wiki/ > has an empty article listed, and the RoR wiki (http:// > wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/CapistranoOnWindows) lists some > seemingly good pointers on Cygwin usage, but is over a year stale and > pretty terse to begin with. > > Some of us can't choose what flavor of machine we deploy to (not in > all cases at least), but we can choose to use a great deployment > system like Capistrano. I'm hoping that where there's a will, there's > a way. I've seen some posts from Jamis Buck mentioning Windows > compatibility, so I remain hopeful. > > Any advice or pointers to existing pages that I certainly might have > missed? > > Thanks in advance. > > - Brian > > p.s. "by current state" I mean either 1.4.1 or 2.0. > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/capistrano -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
