Capistrano Payload

Capistrano plugin that delivers JSON-encoded deployment information via POST to the URL of your choice.

gem install capistrano-payload

Add payload plugin into your deploy.rb file:

require 'capistrano-payload'

Then configure URL:

set :payload_url, "http://your.awesome.url.com/payload"

To test if it works type:

cap payload:deploy

The best way to test out is to use http://www.postbin.org/.

• payload_url — Primary URL where the data would be sent (required)
• payload_format — Payload format. Must be one of :json (default), :form, :yaml, :xml
• payload_params — Extra parameters to the request (api_key, etc.). Note: extra parameters wont be added to the payload.
• payload_prompt — Ask for deployment comment. (default: true)

Plugin will sent a payload in one of the formats (FORM, JSON, YAML, XML) data via POST method.

Here is an example data:

{
  "capistrano": {
    "version": "2.6.0",
    "application": "foobar",
    "deployer": {
      "user": "username",
      "hostname": "localhost"
    },
    "timestamp": "2011-01-01 00:00:00 -0600",
    "source": {
      "branch": "master",
      "revision": "abcdef",
      "repository": "git@github.com:username/repo.git"
    },
    "action": "deploy",
    "message": "Comment"
  },
  "payload_version": "0.4.0"
}

That's it. Ready to roll.

Copyright © 2011 Dan Sosedoff.

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