Working on a way to use Capistrano to deploy to ec2. I know about Capsize, but decided that I didn't want to hardcode image and instance IDs anywhere -- particularly as Capistrano itself will eventually be creating those itself.
The first roadblock was: I can use variables-as-blocks to define things like the list of current instances, the latest instance, etc. (Variables, not functions or tasks, because I figure that information isn't going to change over the course of a single invocation of cap, unless I change it myself.) But I cannot define roles-as-blocks, and I want to find roles out from the results of ec2-describe-instances (and probably other things as well). So, I needed dynamic roles. I'm completely new to the Rails and Capistrano community, so I'm not sure what style conventions I should use, where to send patches, etc. Here's the hack I have so far: Capistrano::Configuration::Roles.module_eval do alias_method :orig_role, :role def role(which, *args, &block) if !block_given? && args.empty? || block_given? && !args.empty? raise ArgumentError, "you must specify exactly one of either a value or a block" end if block_given? then which = which.to_sym @roles[which] = block else # I apologize for this one-liner orig_role(which, args.map{|item| String === item ? Capistrano::ServerDefinition.new(item) : item}) end end end Capistrano::Configuration::Servers.module_eval do alias_method :find_servers_orig, :find_servers def find_servers(options={}) hosts = server_list_from(ENV['HOSTS'] || options[:hosts]) if hosts.any? hosts.uniq else roles = role_list_from(ENV['ROLES'] || options[:roles] || self.roles.keys) roles.each { |role| target = self.roles[role] if target.respond_to?(:call) self.roles[role] = target.call.map { |server| String === server ? ServerDefinition.new(server, {}) : server } end } find_servers_orig(options) end end end --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/capistrano -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---