Kopongo

I just ran into a neat little capistrano trick. I have been making some changes to an app, and knew it had been a while since I had made a release to one of the apps I am working on. But which version do I have installed?

I tried the cap diff_from_last_deploy, but it was a little too much information. I ran into capistrano's stream command, and that proved to be just right:

    desc "Find out svn version on server"
    task :what_version, :roles => [:app] do
        stream <<-CMD
            svn info #{current_path}/app
        CMD
    end

It's also useful for those one-off commands you might want to run on your server, like seeing how many users registered at your site:

    desc "Find out how many users are registered"
    task :how_many_users, :roles => [:app] do
        stream <<-CMD
            psql -U user -d yourapp_production -c 'select count(login) from users'
        CMD
    end