New09

These functions are new in (R)?ex Version 0.9. Download (R)?ex here: http://rexify.org/get/

Rex

• Added Ubuntu support.

• Register tasks as function if possible

• New function get_operating_system to get the Operating System.

• Transactions

  Added Transaction and the possibility to rollback on transaction failures.

  use Rex::Transaction;
  task "do_something", sub {
     on_rollback {
         unlink "/tmp/test";
     };
     
     touch "/tmp/test";
     die;
  };
  
  task "make", sub {
     transaction {
        do_task "do_something";
     };
  };

• Inventory

  Now it's possible to make an inventory of your hardware.

  use Data::Dumper;
  use Rex::Commands::Inventory;
  task "inventory", "server1", "server2", sub {
     my $inventory = inventor();
     print Dumper($inventory);
  };

• New function file

  Use this function to upload a file to your servers.

  task "upload", "server1", sub {
     file "$path/vhost.conf",
        content   => template("../../templates/vhost.conf.tpl"),
        # on change of the file, do something
        on_change => sub { say "file was modified"; };
  };