Rails - Dec 2005 - Praise Switchtower (plus a quick question)

Switchtower is really cool once you get it going.  Quick question, I do 
a:

% rake deploy
% rake remote_exec ACTION=symlink_pictures


...but what''s the easiest way to combine the two in a single command?

Thanks
CM

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On 12/26/05, capnmidnight <capn-vvdLmPox+z5Wk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Switchtower is really cool once you get it going.  Quick question, I do
> a:
>
> % rake deploy
> % rake remote_exec ACTION=symlink_pictures
>
>
> ...but what''s the easiest way to combine the two in a single
command?
>
> Thanks
> CM
Name the task after_symlink and it will be called automatically.

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rick
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On Dec 26, 2005, at 11:11 PM, Rick Olson wrote:
> On 12/26/05, capnmidnight
<capn-vvdLmPox+z5Wk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> Switchtower is really cool once you get it going.  Quick question,  
>> I do
>> a:
>>
>> % rake deploy
>> % rake remote_exec ACTION=symlink_pictures
>>
>>
>> ...but what''s the easiest way to combine the two in a single
command?
>>
>> Thanks
>> CM
>
> Name the task after_symlink and it will be called automatically.
You can also invoke multiple tasks using remote_exec:

   rake remote_exec ACTION=deploy,symlink_pictures

But as Rick said, in this case, naming symlink_pictures  
"after_symlink" (or creating after_symlink and calling  
symlink_pictures from it) is probably the most efficient way to go.  
Before ST invokes a task "foo", it first looks for a task named  
"before_foo" and invokes it (if it exists). After invoking
"foo", ST
looks for and invokes "after_foo". This makes it easy to add
"hooks"
to customize various tasks.

- Jamis