Capistrano

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For the Saint, see Giovanni da Capistrano. For the Italian city, see Capistrano (VV).

See also: San Juan Capistrano, California

Capistrano is an open source tool for running scripts on multiple servers; its main use is deploying web applications. It automates the process of making a new version of an application available on one or more web servers, including supporting tasks such as changing databases.

Capistrano is written in the Ruby language and is distributed using the RubyGems distribution channel. It is an outgrowth of the Ruby on Rails web application framework, but has also been used to deploy web applications written using other frameworks, including ones written in PHP.

Originally called SwitchTower, the name was changed to Capistrano in March 2006 because of a trademark conflict.

[edit] External links

• Capistrano home page
• Capistrano manual
• Capistrano's Rubyforge.org project