Capistrano SSH Port Forwarding Extension

Provide SSH port forwarding while deploying so that we can call local service like Spitball server from remote hosts.

Currently it supports only remote forwarding.

Use bundler, add this line in your Gemfile:

gem 'capistrano-forwarding'

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install capistrano-forwarding

Currently it provides only remote_forwarding configuration which is forwarding remote ports from remote hosts to local.

Here is an example in your Capfile or config/deploy.rb.

require "capistrano/fowarding"

desc "test task"
task "test" do
  remote_forwarding [
    [3000, "127.0.0.1", 3000]
  ] do
    run "curl http://127.0.0.1:3000/"
  end
end

Before trying this, run something like HTTP server on local port 3000.

$ ruby -rwebrick -e 'WEBrick::HTTPServer.new(:Port => 3000).start'