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

This is how i do that without Capistrano: https://github.com/mcasimir/remoting (a deployment tool built on top of rake tasks). I've added a task to the README to open a remote console on the server:

# remote.rake
namespace :remote do

desc "Open rails console on server"
task :console do
  require 'remoting/task'

  remote('console', config.login, :interactive => true) do
    cd config.dest
    source '$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm'
    bundle :exec, "rails c production"
  end
end

end

Than i can run

$ rake remote:console