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Capistrano, Git and SSH keys

This trick has been around for a while, but I’ve talked with several people that didn’t know about it.

When deploying apps with Capistrano, your server needs to have access to the Git repository. Generating an SSH key for each server is a bit of a pain, but there’s an easier way: SSH agent forwarding enables you to use any of your local SSH keys on the server. It’s really easy to set up.

Enable SSH forwarding in deploy.rb:

set :ssh_options, {:forward_agent => true}

The only other thing you need to do is tell the SSH agent about your key.

$ ssh-add -K

The -K option only works on OS X and it adds your key to your keychain so you don’t have to run ssh-add after you reboot (and if you have a passphrase set, you don’t have to type it every time). You can also pass it the path to an SSH private key in a different location.

Now the server can pull from any Git repository that you have access to.

Code: git Jun 23, 2009 ● updated Jun 25, 2009 ● 3 comments

Capistrano 2.5 and older versions of git

Git support in Capistrano 2.5 got a little lovin’, but as a result, it may have broke your deploys. By default, Capistrano now uses the -q flag to tell git to not be so chatty. But older versions of git (1.4.x and maybe some early 1.5.x versions) don’t support the -q flag. If upgrading git isn’t an option, the solution is simple. Just tell Capistrano to take the muzzle off of git:

set :scm_verbose, true
Code: git Nov 13, 2008 ● updated Nov 13, 2008 ● 0 comments

RSpec flirts with git

The RSpec team is hoping to move to some form of distributed version control, giving both git and Mercurial a test run. This month, they’re checking out git.

You can clone the git repository using:

git clone git://gitorious.org/rspec/mainline.git rspec
Code: git Feb 28, 2008 ● updated Oct 14, 2008 ● 1 comment

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