Webistrano Compatible with Brightbox Gem?

I’ve previously used Webistrano to deploy apps. This overlays a UI over Capistrano and helps semi-techs like me visualise whats being deployed, it gives me an interface to recipes, historical info, and allows me to set up different deployments like staging, and deployments from different branches.

Question is, is this at all compatible with the Brightbox gem? Webistrano replaces deploy.rb and capfile (as the BB gem), so I’d have to make edits. But (and I can’t figure this out – not enough doc maybe) the BB gem do anything significant after the first deploy that couldn’t be put in a regular recipe? In other words, wheres the magic?

If the gem is used pretty much for setup only then an approach using Webistrano would be feasible, by translating the BB gem generated deploy.rb into recipes in Webistrano.

Regards,

David

Hi David.

We haven’t ever actually tried using the brightbox gem with Webistrano so I’m not too sure – you basically include a ‘require ’brightbox’’ line in your deploy.rb and it adds in the magic. You can give it a go and let us know how you get on.

David