The naming is perfect — Scotty from Star Trek was always the guy making impossible things happen on impossible timelines. SSH task runners have always felt like they should be simpler than they are, curious how this compares to Fabric or Ansible for lightweight use cases.
> 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!
This is where I stopped reading:
> Scotty was built with the help of AI
So it sounds like my heuristic worked. =)
The most obvious question, I know, but... why not just use plain Bash?
Or something like Ansible? Which is battle tested, provides idempotency for most things, and has a large library of tasks it knows how to do.
Scotty doesn't know...
every sunday
It's in the title: "a beautiful"
It looks nicer.
I use good old GNU Make.