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benedikt / rails.rb
Created July 30, 2011 13:16
Capistrano task to open a rails console on a remote server. Require this file in your deploy.rb and run "cap rails:console"
# encoding: UTF-8
Capistrano::Configuration.instance(:must_exist).load do
namespace :rails do
desc "Open the rails console on one of the remote servers"
task :console, :roles => :app do
hostname = find_servers_for_task(current_task).first
exec "ssh -l #{user} #{hostname} -t 'source ~/.profile && #{current_path}/script/rails c #{rails_env}'"
end
end