On 8/7/07, BigFisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sorry to be so newbie regarding this... > > How would I specify #2?
What I mean is this. Instead of doing: run "rake db:migrate" Try: run "/usr/local/bin/rake db:migrate" (Of course, if rake isn't in /usr/local/bin on your remote machine, you'll want to specify the real location there.) - Jamis > > Regarding #3, I guess I don't really need to worry about a rollback. I > just want to do one simple thing, migrate the database in a specific > applications directory. > > So all I really need to do is figure out that rake path thing, then go > to the proper directory in the server and execute "rake db:migrate". > > Thanks for your help. :) > > On Aug 6, 10:02 pm, "Jamis Buck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Three things: > > > > 1. Settings on a task are not inherited by tasks called from that > > task. Thus, you need to specify the :hosts setting for both > > :change_directory and :update_db. > > > > 2. Capistrano does not read your .profile to discover additional PATH > > entries, so if rake is installed somewhere other than /usr/bin, it > > wont' find it without a full path. Try specifying the full path to > > rake in :update_db. > > > > 3. A transaction won't help you at all unless you also specify what > > should happen on rollback. For each task that you want to be able to > > rollback, add an on_rollback hook (see capistrano/recipes/deploy.rb > > for examples). Then, if the transaction fails, all registered > > on_rollback hooks get called, to try and put things back together. > > > > Hope that helps, > > > > Jamis > > > > On 8/6/07, BigFisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > I am wanting to add a task to a rails application, that deals with > > > updating the db on another "build". Basically, I wanted to create a > > > task for updating the db of a cruise-controled'd version of this app. > > > It's annoying to log in to the server and do it manually, so I figured > > > cap can do the task for me. > > > > > What I'm having trouble doing is having it log in using different > > > credentials or something. I also am having trouble using a rakefile? > > > > > No Rakefile found (looking for: rakefile, Rakefile, rakefile.rb, > > > Rakefile.rb) > > > > > Is my error. > > > > > What I'm doing so far is this => > > > > > task :migrate_cc, :hosts => "cruisecontrolapp.myhost.com" do > > > transaction do > > > change_directory > > > update_db > > > end > > > end > > > > > task :change_directory do > > > run "cd /path/to/the/cruise/control/work" > > > end > > > > > task :update_db do > > > run "rake db:migrate" > > > end > > > > > The problem when I run migrate_cc is the rake thing, and also the fact > > > that it tries to do this on my app's host (app.myhost.com) and also > > > cruisecontrolapp.myhost.com. > > > > > If I'm doing this wrong, please let me know. > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/capistrano -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
