Capistrano::Shell

Opens SSH shell on remote host in current release directory. Requires Capistrano 3.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'capistrano-shell'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install capistrano-shell

# Capfile
require 'capistrano/shell'

# config/deploy/production.rb

server 'server1', user: 'deploy', roles: %w{app}
server 'server2', user: 'deploy', roles: %w{db}, no_release: true

Then you should be able to do something like this:

$ cap production -n shell
$ cap production -n shell ROLES=app
$ cap production -n shell HOSTS=server1
$ cap production -n shell HOSTS=server2

When connecting to server1 ssh will cd into /var/www/your_app/current directory(release_path). But when connecting to server2 just /home/deploy will be opened because server2 is marked as no_release.

In the last two example the HOSTS environment variable is used. However, you probably don't need to use it because capistrano/shell asks you what server to use when there are many.

It is possible to redefine shell command (by default $SHELL --login is used):

set :shell_cmd, '/bin/zsh -l'

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/marshall-lee/capistrano-shell/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request