Rails - Mar 2006 - Capistrano: creating your own tasks

When I create a task within capistrano.rb I can call it using rake.

When I create a task and put it in deploy.rb I can call it.  Neither  
with or without the remote: namespace.

Anyone have any insight into why it does not work?

John Kopanas

On Mar 21, 2006, at 4:52 PM, John Kopanas wrote:
> When I create a task within capistrano.rb I can call it using rake.
>
> When I create a task and put it in deploy.rb I can call it.   
> Neither with or without the remote: namespace.
>
> Anyone have any insight into why it does not work?
Above, you say "I can call it". Do you mean
"can''t"?

First, you need to be sure and keep "rake tasks" and "cap
tasks"
separate. Rake cannot execute capistrano tasks directly. Capistrano  
cannot invoke rake tasks directly.

If you have a capistrano task, it needs to go in deploy.rb. If you  
want to be able to invoke it via rake, you then need to add a wrapper  
for it in lib/tasks/capistrano.rake.

Try this. In config/deploy.rb, add the following:

   task :test_task do
     puts "IT''S ALIVE!!!"
   end

Then, type:

   cap test_task

Do you see the "IT''S ALIVE" message?

- Jamis

Again Jamis, thanks a lot.  I now have a perfectly customized task to  
upload my website. Sweet! :-)

On 22-Mar-06, at 12:23 AM, Jamis Buck wrote:
> On Mar 21, 2006, at 4:52 PM, John Kopanas wrote:
>
>> When I create a task within capistrano.rb I can call it using rake.
>>
>> When I create a task and put it in deploy.rb I can call it.   
>> Neither with or without the remote: namespace.
>>
>> Anyone have any insight into why it does not work?
>
> Above, you say "I can call it". Do you mean
"can''t"?
>
> First, you need to be sure and keep "rake tasks" and "cap
tasks"
> separate. Rake cannot execute capistrano tasks directly. Capistrano  
> cannot invoke rake tasks directly.
>
> If you have a capistrano task, it needs to go in deploy.rb. If you  
> want to be able to invoke it via rake, you then need to add a  
> wrapper for it in lib/tasks/capistrano.rake.
>
> Try this. In config/deploy.rb, add the following:
>
>   task :test_task do
>     puts "IT''S ALIVE!!!"
>   end
>
> Then, type:
>
>   cap test_task
>
> Do you see the "IT''S ALIVE" message?
>
> - Jamis
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John Kopanas