Nils Jonsson, software builder

Over Thanksgiving Day weekend I released a new RubyGem called Cape. You may find it useful if you’re a user of both Capistrano and Rake.

Install Cape by typing gem install cape at the command line, or make it a dependency of your project by using Bundler.

What can Cape do?

• Mirror Rake tasks as Capistrano recipes, optionally filtered by namespace or name
• Embed Rake tasks in a Capistrano namespace
• Pass arguments to Rake tasks by setting environment variables with the same names
• Override the default executables for local and remote Rake installations (/usr/bin/env rake is the default)
• Enumerate Rake tasks for your own purposes

If you’ve ever wanted to execute a Rake task remotely, Cape can help. In your Capistrano recipes, include the following:

   require 'cape'

   Cape do
     # Create Capistrano recipes for all Rake tasks.
     mirror_rake_tasks
   end

Now all your Rake tasks can be invoked as Capistrano recipes. See the readme for more Cape-abilities.

Up, up, and away!