Consider some formatting by default

bradgreens commented 9 years ago

The strings slackistrano currently sends to slack are cough kinda boring. Here's how our config looks:

# In our app it seems we needed to coerce this line. 
set :rails_env, fetch(:stage)

set :slack_webhook, YAML.load_file('./config/slackistrano.yml')["web_hook_url"]

emoji = :rails_env == 'production' ? ':ship:' : ':fireworks:'
set :slack_icon_emoji, emoji

set :slack_msg_starting, "*#{fetch :slack_deploy_user}* has started deploying branch `#{fetch :branch}` of `#{fetch :application}` to `#{fetch :rails_env, 'production'}`"
set :slack_msg_finished, "*#{fetch :slack_deploy_user}* has finished deploying branch `#{fetch :branch}` of `#{fetch :application}` to `#{fetch :rails_env, 'production'}`"
set :slack_msg_failed,   "*#{fetch :slack_deploy_user}* failed to deploy branch `#{fetch :branch}` of `#{fetch :application}` to `#{fetch :rails_env, 'production'}`"

Emojis aside, it creates a nice output for the user, branch, repo, and environment.

Not a real issue but thought I'd share :cocktail:

phallstrom commented 9 years ago

I like it. Not sure I'll change it unless other folks chime in, but I may well add it to the readme.

bradgreens commented 9 years ago

Sweet. I should note that it seems I needed to add set :rails_env, fetch(:stage) to my deploy.rb, it wasn't straightforward why adding the extra style was affecting that but it seemed to resolve a problem where :rails_env was getting lost.

seankibler commented 8 years ago

Maybe there is a place for a few different settings of out-of-the-box formatting. Say, set :slack_msg_format, :simple # :pretty, :fun with :simple being default. Instead of railroading the current defaults.

@bradgreens if you want to come up with some good formats for those or make some up I'll shoulder the implementation. No promises on timeline though. :) Also I invite @phallstrom to give a yay or nay before we put in any effort.