Usage

A small example:

Rexfile

 set user => "root";
 set password => "root";
 set -passauth;

 group frontend => "frontend[01..09]", "varnish[01..04]";
 
 desc "Show Unix version";
 task "uname", group => "frontend", sub {
     say run "uname -a";
 };

 desc "Install needed packages and configurations";
 task "prepare", group => "frontend", sub {
    install "apache2";
    install "mysql-server";
     
    file "/path/on/the/remote/machine",
       content => "Hello World!",
       mode    => 600,
       owner   => "root",
       group   => "root";
 };

Commandline

• Run commands directly from command line

   bash# rex -e 'say run "uptime";' -H "frontend[01..10] middleware[01..05]" -u root -p password

• List all known Tasks

   bash# rex -T
   Tasks
     uname                     Show Unix version

• Run Task uname

   bash# rex uname
   Running task: uname
   Connecting to server1 (root)
   Linux mango 2.6.27-openvz-briullov.1-r4 #1 SMP Tue Nov 24 23:25:52 CET 2009 x86_64 Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 2.80GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
   Running task: uname
   Connecting to server2 (root)
   Linux debian01 2.6.26-2-amd64 #1 SMP Tue Aug 31 09:11:22 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux