New0.13

These functions are new in (R)?ex Version 0.13. Download (R)?ex here: http://rexify.org/get/

Rex

• License changed to GPL3

• Rex is now running under Windows. Tested with ActiveState Perl 5.12 and Windows 7. See http://rexify.org/get for installation instructions.

• Added support for Jiffybox a german cloud service of domainfactory.

  use Rex::Commands::Cloud;
  
  user "root";
  password "f00b4r";
  pass_auth;
  
  cloud_service "Jiffybox";
  cloud_auth "yourkey";
  
  group jiffybox => get_cloud_instances_as_group();
  
  task "create", sub {
     cloud_instance create => {
        image_id     => "debian_squeeze_64bit",
        name         => "test01",
        plan_id      => 10,
        password     => "f00b4r",
     };
  };
  
  task "prepare", group => "jiffybox", sub {
     update_package_db;
     install package => "apache2";
  };
  
  $> rex create preare

• Added function to update package database.

  task "update", "server1", "server2", sub {
     update_package_db;
  };

• Revised error handling. Now every function throws an exception on failure.

  task "test", "server1", "server2", sub {
     unlink "/tmp/doesntexists";  # this will terminate the whole execution because it will fail.
     
     # this will catch the exception and store it in $@
     eval {
        unlink "/tmp/doesntexists";
        # and more stuff
     } or do {
        say "Tried to unlink /tmp/doesntexists but it failed.";
        say "Error: $@";
     };
  };

• added rm as an alias function for unlink

• Added cache for the sftp object. This should speed up the execution.