Today I had to rig up a method for defining symlinks in Capistrano. I never really liked how the ln command worked to begin with; I think of symlinks in terms of:

Alias A targets File B

To make this easier I wrote up this method:

def link(link)   source, target = link.keys.first, link.values.first   run "ln -nfs #{target} #{source}" end

Which reads as:

link "alias_a" => "file_b"

I love finding these little ways that make my code more readable.

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