• Stdin is now being passed, thereby making git prompts work.
• Foreman: Add foreman support. (#71) [Dan Sosedoff]
• Foreman: Fix 'command not found' error. (#89, #101)
• Foreman: Fix forman stop. [Andrew Rosa]
• Fix mina setup showing an error. (#64) [Anthony Hristov]
• Fix "broken pipe" error after deploying. (#64) [Tomas Varneckas]
• Fix error regarding "open4" in Windows environments. (#58)
• Fix the default script's "touch tmp/restart.txt" to work for reliably. (#77) [Eugene Diachkin]
• Fix errors that happen when the host string is frozen. [sonots]
• RVM: use 'rvm use --create'. (#81) [Marcos Beirigo]
• RVM: Add 'rvm:wrapper' task to create wrappers. (#81) [Marcos Beirigo]
• New helper method called 'capture' to capture SSH output. (#113) [Naoki Ainoya]
• Fix encoding errors. (#68) [Faud Saud]

Special thanks to all the contributors who made this release happen.

https://github.com/nadarei/mina/compare/v0.2.1...v0.3.0

This release is to fix some issues that should've been cleaned up in the previous release, but wasn't.

• Fix SSH helpers giving a 'class required' error.
• Send stdout even in term_mode = :pretty mode.
• Rbenv: Fix compatibility with Debian, Arch, Fedora. (#44)
• Supress the "--depth is ignored in local clones" warning. (#56)

• Add the :ssh_options setting. (#23)
• Add the :forward_agent setting. (#23)

• Make the :term_mode setting accept strings, not just symbols. (eg: set :term_mode, 'exec')

This release had two pre releases:

• v0.2.0.pre2 (Aug 2, 2012)
• v0.1.3.pre1 (Jul 13, 2012)

• Allow changing :term_mode in the setup task. (#51, @alfuken)
• Prevent git log from using a pager. (#42, @tmak)
• deploy:cleanup can now be called in a deploy script. (#50, @dariocravero)
• Don't invoke bash anymore (!), assume that bash is the shell for the user. Fixes Ubuntu 12, and many other things.
• Fixed ssh(cmd, return: true) that used to exit. (#53 from @jpascal)
• [pre2] Call ssh with no double use -t parameter.
• [pre2] Fix Ruby 1.8 compatibility.
• [pre2] Fix the "undefined method > for Process::Status" error.
• [pre2] Using force_migrate=1 and force_assets=1 to rails:db_migrate and rails:assets_precompile now works well.
• [pre1] Respect the bundle_bin setting when doing bundle exec in Rails commands. (#29)
• [pre1] Doing rails:assets_precompile now properly skips asset compilation if not needed. (#25)

• Added the 'queue!' helper.
• Add support for Whenever. (#47, @jpascal)
• Add a new :environment task that gets loaded on setup/deploy.
• Add explicit support for rbenv/rvm. (#5, #39)
  • Implement :'rvm:use[...]'. (#5, #39)
  • Implement :'rbenv:load'. (#5, #39)
• Revert rails:optimize_for_3.2 from the pre2 release. (#32)
• [pre2] Optimize git:clone by caching the repository. This way, updates are faster because not the entire repo is cloned everytime. (#10)
• [pre2] Show elapsed time that a deploy takes.
• [pre2] Display the git commit nicely when deploying.
• [pre2] Force quit when 2 ^Cs are pressed.
• [pre2] New die helper.
• [pre2] New report_time helper.
• [pre2] New to_directory helper. (#35)
• [pre2] Put optional optimizations for Rails 3.2 asset pipeline. (#32) -- reverted
• Update sample deploy script:
  • [pre2] Update default deploy.rb to note :branch.
  • [pre2] Add link_shared_paths to the sample deploy script.
• [pre1] Doing rails:db_migrate now skips doing migrations if they're not needed. (#18)
• [pre1] Added the mina console command for Rails.
• [pre1] Make asset paths configurable using the asset_paths setting.

• Force removal of shared path destinations before linking with deploy:link_shared_paths. Fixes symlinking of log/ in Rails projects.
• Rails: speed up default asset compilation a bit by invoking assets:precompile with RAILS_GROUPS=assets.
• Add helpful error message when there is a problem with deploy.rb or a custom Rakefile. (#37, @sge-jesse-adams)
• Update the default deploy.rb to add notes about 'mina setup' customizations.
• Make mina run, mina rake, mina console use the new :environment task.
• Allow calling die without arguments.
• [pre2] Improve output of mina init.
• [pre2] Prettier output for mina setup. Also, show a better error message for it.
• [pre1] Refactor pretty printing to be simpler, cleaner, and extensible.
• [pre1] Show prettier abort messages when ^C'd.

This release had two prereleases: v0.1.2.pre1 and v0.1.2.pre2.

• Show stdout output properly on deploy.
• 'mina rake' now works.
• [.pre2] Fix deploy:link_shared_paths to use absolute paths.
• [.pre2] Fix console logs for task init.
• [.pre1] Fixed JRuby support.
• [.pre1] Respect .bashrc. (#5)

• [.pre2] Add :bundle_bin option.
• [.pre2] Add :ssh port option.

• Refactor pretty printing to be simpler, cleaner, and extensible.
• Show prettier abort messages when ^C'd.
• Use the new error message format. (See lib/mina/output_helpers.rb)
• [.pre1] Implement ssh("..", return: true).
• [.pre1] Rename simulate_mode to simulate_mode?. Same with verbose_mode?.
• [.pre1] Show the SSH command in the simulation output.

• Check for releases_path directory in deploy script.
• mina deploy:cleanup
• Support for -f option.

• Gem description.

• deploy.rb template (domain, user, git:clone).
• Handle empty Git repository.
• Add pkg to gitignore.

Renamed to Mina from Van Helsing.

• vh rails[command] and vh rake[command] tasks.
• Add vh run.
• -S as an alias for --simulate.
• the #set_default helper.
• the bundle_prefix setting.
• New term_mode setting.

• --simulate show things without the ssh command or shellescaping.

Thanks to @sosedoff for his contributions that made it to this release.

• Rubinius support.
• Ruby 1.8 support.
• Prelimenary JRuby support.
• MIT license.
• Highlight errors as red in deploy.
• Use popen4 instead of popen3. Support JRuby via IO.popen4.

• Rename to :restart to to :launch.
• Make deploys fail if renaming the build (eg, not setup properly) fails.

• Added rake spec (aliased as just rake) task. It tests with Rake 0.8 and 0.9 both.
• Integrate with Travis CI.
• Make the SSH test more portable.
• Removed rake spec:verbose.

• Add --trace to the vh help screen.
• Rake 0.8 compatibility.
• Ruby 1.8.7 compatibility.

• Use :domain instead of :host.

• Allow rake 0.8 testing using rake=0.8 rspec.
• Add more README examples.

• --simulate switch.
• --verbose switch.
• The help screen now shows command line switches (like --verbose).
• Build in tmp/ instead of in releases/.
• Use verbose_mode and simulate_mode instead. Using 'verbose' causes problems.
• New #deploy_script helper, to make things more transparent.

• Added a test for an actual deployment.
• Make the test_env runnable even without a net connection.
• New tests for actual deployment. Just do rspec -t ssh.
• Cleanup git:clone code.
• A buncha code cleanups.

• A help screen. You can see it with vh --help, vh -h or just plain vh.
• Implemented vh --version.
• Sequential release versions. Yay!
• Added the build_path setting, which supercedes the now-removed release_path.

• release_path has been deprecated.

• Stupid critical bug fix: fix vh:setup giving the world access to deploy_to.
• Ensure that SSH stderr output is shown properly.
• Make #invoke work with tasks with arguments (eg, :'site:scrape[ensogo]')

• Edit the default deploy.rb to have a description for the deploy task.
• Make vh -T show vh instead of rake.
• Make vh setup ensure ownership of the deploy_to path.
• Make deploy steps more explicit by echoing more statuses.
• When deploys fail, you now don't see the default Ruby backtrace. It now behaves like Rake where you need to add --trace to see the trace.

• Fixed the error that sometimes happens when invoking vh without a deploy.rb.
• Update the sample deploy.rb file to be more readable.
• The test_env/ project can now be deployed without problems, so you can try things out.
• Lots of new tests.
• rspec test order is now randomized.
• rspec output is colored (thanks to .rspec).
• Better script indentation when running in simulation mode.
• In symlinking ./current/, use ln -nfs instead of rm -f && ln -s.

• Implement vh init which creates a sample deploy.rb.
• Implement 'vh setup'.
• Added the configurable :releases_path setting, so you may change where to keep releases.
• Added documentation via Reacco.
• Allow settings to throw errors on missing settings by adding a bang (e.g., bundle_path! or settings.bundle_path!)

• Allow bundle:install to skip having shared bundle paths if :bundle_path is set to nil.
• Rename force_unlock to deploy:force_unlock.
• Rename vh:link_shared_paths to deploy:link_shared_paths.
• Invoking deploy:force_unlock now shows the command it uses.

• The bundle:install task now honors the bundle_path setting.
• Fixed deploy:force_unlock always throwing an error.
• The deploy:force_unlock task now honors the lock_file setting, so the user may change the location of the lock file.
• Fixed rails:assets_precompile not compiling if no older assets found.

• Deprecate #validate_set.

• Move deploy settings to deploy.rb.
• Rename the default addon to deploy.

Initial version.