Scotty: A beautiful SSH task runner
We just released Scotty, a beautiful SSH task runner. It lets you define deploy scripts and other remote tasks, run them from your terminal, and watch every step as it happens. It supports both Laravel Envoy's Blade format and a new plain bash format. Why we built Scotty Even though services like…
> It lets you define deploy scripts and other remote tasks
Ok.
> run them from your terminal and watch every step as it happens
> and watch every step as it happens
Yes, this is usually how scripts work.
> When everything finishes, you get a summary table with timing for each step.
> If a task fails, its output is shown and execution stops right there so you can investigate.
Yes, I write my larger scripts to do such things...
> Writing plain bash instead of Blade
Yes, probably a good idea.
Call me crazy (you're crazy!) but I'm not seeing the point.
It also (criminally for an SSH tool) appears for now to only work when the server uses the SSH default port 22:
https://github.com/spatie/scotty/issues/1
Literally would be one of the first things I would have tested personally!
speckx