automatically send e-mail describing each cap deploy?

rubyonrails-talk
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Railsters:

Here's the command to get the revision log between a given revision and the state-of-the-art:

svn log http://my…repository/trunk --revision 42:head

Under our usual mix of Capistrano and SVN, how would one write a Capistrano task to...

- collect the last deployment's revision number - sample that log - e-mail the log to a list of e-mail addresses?

I attempted this script, and immediately got mired in the kind of absurd details that other systems take for granted, but which Rails has taught me I'm doing something wrong. So I throw the question open...

(And, naturally, Googling for "send e-mail" is hopeless!:wink:

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Railsters:

Here's the command to get the revision log between a given revision and the state-of-the-art:

svn log http://my…repository/trunk --revision 42:head

Under our usual mix of Capistrano and SVN, how would one write a Capistrano task to...

Write a "before_deploy" task which....

- collect the last deployment's revision number

Looks at #{deploy_to}/revisions.log and takes the last file which looks like this:

2007-08-27 15:19:12 web 6604 20070827221715

The fourth record is the SVN revision.

- sample that log

Apply the above to your svn command via "system" or IO.popen and capture the output.

- e-mail the log to a list of e-mail addresses?

Send it using net/smtp.