It works great, thanks!

I guess I should have looked at the changelog first...

Is there also a way to set environment variables before running a  
command, like PATH? It is ok to do:

run "PATH=/my/path/to/bin:$PATH env | grep PATH"

But doing the same with sudo fails because:

sudo "PATH=/my/path/to/bin:$PATH env | grep PATH"

executes:

run "sudo PATH=/my/path/to/bin:$PATH env | grep PATH"

when it actually should execute:
run "PATH=/my/path/to/bin:$PATH sudo env | grep PATH"

Thanks again for Capistrano, your blog and Rails!


--mathieul


On Jan 23, 2007, at 12:24 PM, Jamis Buck wrote:

>
> mathieul,
>
> You can actually do this:
>
>    task :my_test, :hosts => "linux7" do
>      ...
>    end
>
> That will then execute that task _specifically_ and _only_ on the
> linux7 host. Does that work for you?
>
> - Jamis
>
> On Jan 23, 2007, at 12:18 PM, mathieul wrote:
>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm pretty new to using Capistrano (but pretty addicted already) so I
>> apologize in advance if this topic has been answered many times
>> already.
>>
>> I am trying to get our company to start using Ruby. One of the
>> components I am trying to replace is cfengine. I think that  
>> Capistrano
>> would be much more powerful, simple and easy to maintain (we are only
>> using cfengine for deploying our application).
>>
>> One of the typical tasks we do is to check if one of our package is
>> installed (a rpm for instance), and if yes what  is its version.  
>> Based
>> on the result, we will or not upload the RPM and install/update  
>> it. We
>> don't want to do it no matter what, there can be a lot of packages to
>> potentially install on 20 servers.
>>
>>> From what I understand of Capistrano philosophy, a command can be
>> executed on a list of servers determined by their roles and  
>> optionally
>> additional attributes. I didn't find a way to limit a
>> run/stream/sudo/put/delete command to a list of servers built at
>> runtime.
>>
>> So I have written a patch (http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/7223:
>> Allow to set environment variables and limit the list of servers when
>> running a remote command) to do just that (it also allow to set
>> environment variables). Is there an easier built-in way to do  
>> that? If
>> not, do you think it is the right way to implement it?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> --mathieul
>>
>>
>>>
>
>
> >


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