Is there a way to use capistrano (or similar) to remotely interact with rails console

Question

I\'m loving how capistrano has simplified my deployment workflow, but often times a pushed change will run into issues that I need to log into the server to troubleshoot via the

Answer 1

Not necessarily the best option, but I hacked the following together for this problem in our project:

task :remote_cmd do
  cmd = fetch(:cmd)

  puts `#{current_path}/script/console << EOF\r\n#{cmd}\r\n EOF`
end

To use it, I just use:

cap remote_cmd -s cmd="a = 1; b = 2; puts a+b"

(note: If you use Rails 3, you will have to change script/console above to rails console, however this has not been tested since I don't use Rails 3 on our project yet)