CapistranoNotify

CapistranoNotify notifies you via system notifications when your deployment is finished. But wait, there's more!

Usage

Install capistrano-notify:

gem install capistrano-notify

Require capitrano-notify in your deploy.rb:

require 'capistrano/notify'

Default notifications

after :deploy - "#{application} was successfully deployed to #{deploy_stage}"
after "deploy:setup" - "#{application} was successfully prepared for deployment on #{deploy_stage}"
on :rollback - "There was a problem with your deploy to #{application} #{deploy_stage}"
# you are using moonshine aren't you? :)
before "moonshine:apply" - "Moonshine is applying the #{fetch(:moonshine_manifest)} for #{fetch(:application)}."

Options

:notify_deploy_message - sets the message for when a deployment is complete.

set :notify_deploy_message, "Your deploy is now diamonds."

:notify_rollback_message - sets the message for when a deploy fails and roll back (default: app name deploy failed1111)

set :notify_rollback_message, "Doh, you just drove a golf cart into the lake."

:notify_stickiness - sets wether the system notification should be sticky (default false)

set :notify_stickiness, true

:notify_enabled - sets wether capistrano-notify is enabled/disable for a project (default: true)

set :notify_enabled, false

Example of overriding a default message:

namespace :notify
  namespace :deploy
    task :success
      set :notify_stickyness, true
      set :notify_message, "Your deploy is now diamonds."
      notifynotify      
    end
  end
end

Can't get enough? Easily add capistrano-notify to all projects

You can add capistrano-notify to all your projects by adding the following to you ~/.caprc

on :load do
  require 'capistrano-notify'
end