Put some colors on your capistrano output
I got so tired of all the messy capistrano output so today I released my first public gem.
The name of the gem is capistrano_colors and the aim of the gem is to put some nice and shiny colors on capistrano output. The gem has only been tested with rails but should work wherever capistrano works.
Keep on reading to see some screenshots!
Just follow the instruction on the github page (http://github.com/stjernstrom/capistrano_colors/) and you will have a colorful output like the second screenshots in no time.
Capistrano output without capistrano_colors
Capistrano output with capistrano_colors
As you can see the output on the second image is much clearer and easier to understand.
Try it out and let me know what you think!
Cheers!
Posted in Programming, Projects, Ruby, gems at December 21st, 2008. Trackback URI: trackback Tags: capistrano, colors, gems, Rails, release Written by: Mathias Stjernström
Awesome work – looks like it will be trivial to add custom colors for site specific actions.
Jesse Andrews
on December 22nd, 2008 at 9:19 pm
The code is very simple so adding new features is very easy.
It’s would be really cool to have some kind of configuration in deploy.rb so that you can add custom string/tasks to color.
[cc lang="ruby"]
set :capistrano_colors, [
[/linux5.example.com/, :yellow],
[/git ls-remote/, :blue]
]
[/cc]
I will think about that for the next version
Mathias Stjernström
on December 22nd, 2008 at 9:41 pm
This is great! Makes it a lot easier to follow the information that capistrano prints dusing a deploy. Especially when something goes wrong, then you know right away.
Being able to use your own custom matches would be a great addition.
Daniel Thor
on December 23rd, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Thank you.
Lamar
on February 19th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
Big thanks. I was looking for a way to quite it down. This is a good alternative.
Frank Webber
on November 11th, 2009 at 7:05 am
Glad you liked it!
Thanks for commenting!
Mathias Stjernström
on November 11th, 2009 at 8:44 am