Chris Nagele
Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Beanstalk: New interface for Releases

While we work on improving the performance and speed of our deployment tools, we also wanted to push a small, but important update to the releases interface. The previous interface contained some javascript and ajax requests to show/hide the settings and enable/disable servers. We decided to get back to the basics and keep things simple.
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The new interface uses the same work flow as our integration tools, which creates a consistent interface in our app, reduces code we need to write, and gets rid of any javascript and ajax requests that make things more complicated than they should be. Here are some before and after screen shots.

The old deployment settings

Deployment Tools, The Old Design

The new deployment settings

Deployment Tools, The New Design

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Ken Scott on October 30th, 2008 at 2:50 pm

Can the text field for the port be made wider? Our setup requires a 5-digit port number, and it is annoying to have to select/scroll to make sure that we have the right port set up.

Thanks!

Chris Nagele on October 30th, 2008 at 3:00 pm

Thanks for the tip! We’ll add this to the backlog.

Brian Campbell on October 31st, 2008 at 7:20 pm

I have always wondered about the order of the servers — Why Production, then DEV, then Staging? Am I the only one that feels like Staging should be in the middle when these are displayed (Setup pages and Releases page) ? It just makes from sense from a workflow standpoint.

Love the releases functionality, looking forward to more updates!

Brian Campbell on October 31st, 2008 at 7:24 pm

I must sound like an idiot with my prior post — but my repository that already has deployments setup lists them as:

Production
Development
Staging

I notice that if I go to setup deployments for another repository, they are in the order you show in your examples. Is this just the because I set these up early in the beta process??

Beanstalk: New interface for Releases

The old deployment settings

The new deployment settings

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