Remote rails console and dbconsole for capistrano.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'capistrano-rails-console', require: false

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install capistrano-rails-console

You should ensure there is a rails binstub in the current/bin directory on the server otherwise this gem won't work (because rails itself won't work). If you experience any problems please verify that manually running rails console on the server does work. If it doesn't you are deploying your rails application wrong (check #18 or #26 for details)!

Require in Capfile to use the default task:

require 'capistrano/rails/console'

Run a remote rails console with:

$ cap production rails:console

You can also start a sandbox session:

$ cap production rails:console sandbox=1

Or run a dbconsole:

$ cap production rails:dbconsole

set :console_env, :production # use different environment than deployment environment (rails_env)

set :console_user, :appuser # run rails console as appuser through sudo
set :console_user, nil # explicitly disable switching user through sudo

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/ydkn/capistrano-rails-console.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.