Added: Fabric task to deploy current project to remote host

fabfile/__init__.py

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ For more help on a particular command
 
 from fabric.api import env
 
-from fabfile.tasks import code_quality, build_docs, push_docs, clean, test
+from fabfile.tasks import build_docs, clean, code_quality, configure, deploy, push_docs, test, start, stop
 
 
 # Without this, `fab -l` would display the whole docstring as preamble
@@ -25,11 +25,15 @@ __doc__ = ""
 
 # This list defines which tasks are made available to the user
 __all__ = [
-    "code_quality",
-    "test",
     "build_docs",
-    "push_docs",
     "clean",
+    "code_quality",
+    "configure",
+    "deploy",
+    "push_docs",
+    "start",
+    "stop",
+    "test",
 ]
 
 # Honour the user's ssh client configuration

fabfile/tasks.py

@@ -315,4 +315,46 @@ def clean():
     """Clean up files generated by fabric commands."""
     with hide('running', 'stdout'):
         with cd(PROJECT_ROOT):
+            with settings(warn_only=True):
                 run(r"find . -name '*.pyc' -exec rm '{}' \;")
+
+
+@task
+def start(path):
+    """
+    Start pybitmessage on the target host
+    .. todo:: automate this: xpra start :7 && DISPLAY=:7 src/bitmessagemain.py &
+    """
+    with cd(path):
+        pass
+
+
+@task
+def stop():
+    """Stop pybitmessage on the target host"""
+    with settings(warn_only=True):
+        run('pkill -9 pybitmessage; pkill xpra')
+
+
+@task
+def configure():
+    """Prepare a host for deployment"""
+    sudo('apt install -y rsync xpra pyqt4-dev-tools')
+
+
+@task
+def deploy():
+    """
+    Deploy current version to test host.
+    """
+    clean()
+    stop()
+    remote_dir = os.path.join(run('pwd'), 'pybitmessage')
+    rsync_project(
+        remote_dir=remote_dir,
+        local_dir=os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT, ''),
+        exclude=[
+            '.git/',
+        ]
+    )
+    start(remote_dir)