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Capistrano, meet Twitter: Keep your users updated through Twitter

June 04, 2008

I recently deployed a beta of an application I'm working on and I thought it'd be nice to keep users updated about any new features or updates through twitter. So I wrote a spiffy Rails plugin that just adds a capistrano recipe for updating twitter statuses when you deploy.

capistrano_twitter just prompts you for a status update when you deploy and then updates the twitter status for the specified user (in config/deploy.rb). Of course, if you leave the status blank, no update will be made.

Check it out for yourself: http://github.com/arya/capistrano_twitter

Comments

posted by Rob Olson on 06/05/08 01:38 AM PDT

I'm pumped to start a project twitter worthy so that I can actually try out this fantastic script.

Twitter has some definite take over the world potential. Normally that would scare me but since its a Rails app... I'm cool with it.


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