On May 4, 4:55 pm, Jamis Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 4, 2008, at 3:33 PM, Jeff wrote: > > > 1. Just curious as to why cap doesn't use MultiSSH under the hood, > > since the essence of capistrano (do stuff on multiple servers via ssh) > > seems to be a natural fit for the purpose of MultiSSH as I understand > > it (connect to multiple servers via ssh). > > MultiSSH, do you mean this one:http://oss.linbit.com/multissh/?Or > something else?
Sorry, I meant Net::SSH::Multi that you mentioned in your announcement for cap 2.3. From the description I immediately assumed it was extracted from the inner workings of capistrano, but then I guess you mentioned that cap doesn't actually use it. > > > 2. What's the best way for newbies to learn about all the predefined > > tasks and variables in 2.3? Any online or paid (i.e. book) references > > you would recommend? It's been hard for those at my workplace to feel > > confident about upgrading from 1.4 because a lot of it still seems > > mysterious to some extent. > > Alas, documentation is really Capistrano's achilles heel right now. > The "best" way to learn about the predefined tasks is via "cap -T", > and then "cap -e taskname" for each task, to read about what they do. > The best way to learn about the predefined variables is to look > through capistrano/recipes/deploy.rb. > > Not what you wanted to hear, I'm sure. I can't complain: cap is free; and I haven't contributed to the docs... yet :-) Thanks Jeff > - Jamis --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/capistrano -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
