Scotty: A beautiful SSH task runner (freek.dev)

21 points by speckx 3 hours ago

qmr an hour ago

> 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.

SrslyJosh an hour ago

This is where I stopped reading:

> Scotty was built with the help of AI

So it sounds like my heuristic worked. =)

wackget 2 hours ago

The most obvious question, I know, but... why not just use plain Bash?

SoftTalker 22 minutes ago

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.

mathfailure an hour ago

Scotty doesn't know...

Piraty 15 minutes ago

every sunday

metalliqaz an hour ago

It's in the title: "a beautiful"

It looks nicer.

I use good old GNU Make.