NAME

       cap - tool to perform capistrano tasks

SYNOPSIS

       cap <command> [options]

DESCRIPTION

       cap  — cap is an utility to invoke capistrano tasks.  Capistrano is a utility and framework for executing
       commands in parallel on multiple remote machines, via SSH. It uses a simple DSL (borrowed  in  part  from
       Rake,  http://rake.rubyforge.org/) that allows you to define _tasks_, which may be applied to machines in
       certain roles. It also supports tunneling connections via some gateway machine to allow operations to  be
       performed behind VPN's and firewalls.

       Capistrano was originally designed to simplify and automate deployment of web applications to distributed
       environments, and originally came bundled with a set of tasks designed for deploying Rails  applications.
       The  deployment  tasks  are now (as of Capistrano 2.0) opt-in and require clients to explicitly put "load
       'deploy'" in their recipes.

       Capistrano is  a  self-documenting program by giving you an extensive help listing for each  command.  If
       you think that this manual page is outdated, simply running

       cap -h

ASSUMPTIONS

       Capistrano  is  "opinionated  software",  which means it has very firm ideas about how things ought to be
       done, and tries to force those ideas on you. Some of the assumptions behind these opinions are:

         * You are using SSH to access the remote servers.
         * You either have the same password to all target machines, or you have public keys in place  to  allow
       passwordless access to them.

       Do not expect these assumptions to change.

OPTIONS

       Capistrano  is extensible configurable, and it has the following configuration options:

       -e           --explain TAKS
                 Displays help (if available) for the task.

       -F           --default-config
                 Always use default config, even with -f.

       -f           --file FILE
                 A recipe file to load. May be given more than once.

       -H           --long-help
                 Explain these options.

       -h           --help
                 Display this help message.

       -p           --password
                 Immediately prompt for the password.

       -q           --quiet
                 Make the output as quiet as possible.

       -S           --set-before NAME=VALUE
                 Set a variable before the recipes are loaded.

       -s           --set NAME=VALUE
                 Set a variable after the recipes are loaded.

       -T           --taks
                 List all tasks in the loaded recipe files.

       -V           --version
                 Display the Capistrano version, and exit.

       -v           --verbose
                 Be more verbose. May be given more than once.

       -X           --skip-system-config
                 Don't load the system config file (capistrano.conf)

       -x           --skip-user-config
                 Don't load the user config file (.caprc)

SEE ALSO

       capify (1).

AUTHOR

       This  manual  page  was  written  by Leandro Nunes dos Santos leandronunes@colivre.coop.br for the Debian
       system (but may be used by others).  Permission  is  granted  to  copy,  distribute  and/or  modify  this
       document  under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the
       Free Software Foundation.

       On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-
       licenses/GPL.

                                                                                                   CAPISTRANO(1)