Pretty simple gem that just replaces http authentication passwords (user:pass@host) with ‘xxx.’

This is useful if you have a mercurial repo behind http authentication and you don’t want your password spalyed all over your terminal every time you deploy.

sudo gem install cap_password_filter

Just install it and then add

require 'cap_password_filter'

to your deploy.rb

That’s it. This gem isn’t that important though, and I’m not sure it’s worth introducing a dependency on this gem into your deploy script, so I usually do something like this instead, just to be nice:

begin
  require 'cap_password_filter'
rescue LoadError
  puts "** You should run gem install cap_password_filter if having your password logged to the console bothers you.\n\n"
end

v1.0.2

- added rdoc instead of plain text readme

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