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Capistrano 2.5.0August 28

Capistrano 2.5.0 is now available! You can read the full release announcement on the capify.org news blog.

SQLite3-Ruby 1.2.3August 27

SQLite3-Ruby version 1.2.3 is now available. It is a maintenance release, fixing just a few things:

  • The permissions on the database.rb and translator.rb files in 1.2.2 were incorrect, resulting in broken sqlite3-ruby installations for many *nix users. This is now fixed.
  • A few more Ruby 1.9 compatibility issues were patched.
  • Some optimizations were applied to speed up iterating over result sets.

To install or upgrade:

gem install sqlite3-ruby

Thanks!

Cap 1.4.1? Go 1.4.2. Now.August 26

Are you currently using Capistrano 1.4.1? If so, drop everything (I mean it, do this RIGHT NOW) and install Capistrano 1.4.2.

Why, you ask?

Capistrano 1.4.1 will work just fine, right up until you decide you want to experiment with Capistrano 2. When you do that, Cap 2.3+ will install net-ssh 2.x, which kills Capistrano 1.4.1 in all kinds of really obscure ways.

The good news is that Cap 1.4.2 is completely compatible with Cap 1.4.1. It adds no new features. The only “bug” it fixes is that if you ever install net-ssh 2.x, Cap 1.4.2 will still happily continue to work.

Ultimately, an upgrade to Cap 2 is recommended, but I understand it’s not feasible for everyone. So, if you’re one of those who can’t go cap2 yet, please please please PLEASE PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY upgrade to Cap 1.4.2. It’ll make your life easier, and it’ll make my life easier (because I won’t have to keep troubleshooting the same issues over and over). Thanks!

Cloning Ubuntu Hardy image in VMWare FusionAugust 15

Having spent the better part of a day googling and struggling, I figured it would possibly benefit others if I took a minute to post the steps I took to clone a VMWare Fusion image. The image in question is of Ubuntu Server (Hardy). I’m using VMWare Fusion 2 (beta 2).

Just find your “Virtual Machines” folder (should be in your Documents folder), and copy the image in question to a new location. (The images are actually folders; a simple “cp -R” worked fine for me.)

Then, open the copied image in VMWare Fusion and boot it. VMWare Fusion will ask if you if you copied or moved the image—be sure to say you copied it (that let’s VMWare set up a new MAC address for your image).

Go ahead and log in once the server boots. You’ll find networking is all hosed. To fix networking, this worked for me:

  • “sudo hostname blah”, to set the hostname. This doesn’t change it permanently, so you’ll also want to:
  • “sudo vim /etc/hostname”. Change the contents of the file to the hostname you want. Then:
  • “sudo vim /etc/hosts”. Replace all mentions of the old hostname with the new hostname.
  • “sudo vim /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules”. There will be two entries in this file. The first points eth0 at the old MAC address, and the second points eth1 at the new. Go ahead and delete the first entry, and change “eth1” to “eth0” in the second (and now on
Tutorial #2: RecapAugust 14

So, the second Capistrano tutorial session has come and gone. It was a great session, though it started pretty rough. (I was very unprepared for some windows-related configuration issues during the first half-hour. That won’t happen again.) I appreciate everyone’s patience who participated!

I’m going to be quiet on the tutorial front for the next several weeks, but its not because I’ve given up on them. I’m going to be rethinking some aspects of them. I really want these to be opportunities for people to master capistrano, and while these first two tutorials have been very useful to those who attended (their words, not mine), I think they could be even better.

Stay tuned!