Capistrano Compact Formatter

Custom formatter for Capistrano 3, with compact output, and opinionated according to my own needs.

I don't like the built-in formatters from sshkit. They're too verbose in debug mode, but too little verbose otherwise. Everytime an error occurred while using set :debug, :info, I would find myself changing it back to :debug to see the actual error messages.

A quick breakdown of what it does:

• no difference for each log level. I might add this in the future, but at this point, I didn't feel the need;
• each command is printed in a single line, containing a trimmed message and a success flag;
• if a command has output in stdout/stderr, it will be printed below, with a leading tab, in green/red respectively;
• conditional commands (i.e. commands with the format [ some_bash_condition ]) will not be printed. They frequently return false, which would output a red failure flag. I find that misleading, since it doesn't mean the deploy failed, it's merely a condition that evaluated to false.

Sample output:

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'capistrano-compact-formatter'

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install capistrano-compact-formatter

And require it in your Capfile

# Capfile

require 'capistrano-compact-formatter'

Then in your config/deploy.rb, specify the formatter to use:

# config/deploy.rb

set :format, :compact

And you're all set!

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/[my-github-username]/capistrano-compact-formatter/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request