Capistrano dry run
I submitted a patch to Capistrano to add a “—dry-run” option (or -n for short). This flag causes capistrano to print out all of commands it will run without ...
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Improved internationalization test
I wrote previously about how we test the internationalization of our website in Testing internationalization language files. Basically, we generate a blank l...
Switching users during a capistrano deploy
We have a complicated deployment on my current project which includes running several commands as a different user from the main deployment user. Normally, t...
Capistrano with pairing stations
My last few projects have all been developed on mac minis. We have them set up as pairing stations, with two people to a machine. Every machine was cloned fr...
Testing internationalization language files
Update (8/29/08): I wrote about a bunch of improvements to the test described below in Improved internationalization test