The best thing since sliced bread, aka Capistrano, is on the cusp of reaching its second version. While Capistrano 1 made complaints of Rails deployment all but nil, it lacked a bit of the polish that adorns the rest of the Rails development process. Capistrano 2 seeks to change that, and by golly, judging from the previews, I think it’s a success.

While I was unable to get the first preview working on my local machine, I kept the Capistrano on my development server at the stable version. As a result, I was forced to ssh into my dev server each time I wanted to deploy. With this latest release the help of some excellent tutorials from Geoffrey Grosenbach (of Peepcode fame), as well as a thorough look at my old deploy.rb file.

Once I get more time to play, I’ll post a more comprehensive review. In the meantime, you can install the Capistrano 2 Preview 2 by running the following command:

sudo gem install -s http://gems.rubyonrails.com capistrano

To read more about Capistrano 2: Preview 2, go right to the source. Jamis Buck, daddy of Capistrano, has a great post about it here: http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2007/5/11/capistrano-2-0-preview-2.