Just an update, I had this problem too. Only uninstalling ruby-debug
and ruby-debug-base helped. This must have been introduced in recent
Capistrano versions.
Jonathan
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 9:15 PM, gsterndale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Thanks Ama and Jamis! It was because I was requiring ruby-debug. All
> is well now.
>
> Jamis, Capistrano is a huge time saver for us. Many thanks.
>
> On Aug 15, 3:02 pm, Jamis Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> It works for me:
>>
>> $ cat capfile.test
>> load 'deploy'
>>
>> task :start do
>> puts "this should work"
>> end
>>
>> namespace :thin do
>> task :start do
>> puts "this should work, too"
>> end
>> end
>>
>> $ cap -f capfile.test start thin:start
>> * executing `start'
>> this should work
>> * executing `thin:start'
>> this should work, too
>>
>> I suspect you're either using a third-party capistrano plugin or
>> extension that defines a method called "start" somewhere, or you've
>> defined such a method yourself somewhere in your capfile or deploy.rb.
>>
>> - Jamis
>>
>> On Aug 15, 2008, at 12:14 PM, gsterndale wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> > This only seems to be happening with tasks named 'start'.
>>
>> > For example:
>>
>> > namespace :thin do
>> > %w(start stop restart).each do |action|
>> > desc "#{action} this app's Thin Cluster"
>> > task action.to_sym, :roles => :app do
>> > run "thin #{action} -C
>> > #{shared_configuration_location_for(:thin)}"
>> > end
>> > end
>> > end
>>
>> > On Aug 13, 5:20 pm, gsterndale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >> when doing a $ cap deploy:cold
>>
>> >> I'm getting the following error:
>> >> /path/to/gems/capistrano-2.4.3/lib/capistrano/configuration/
>> >> namespaces.rb:97:in `task': defining a task named `start' would
>> >> shadow
>> >> an existing method with that name (ArgumentError)
>>
>> >> I have tasks called 'start', 'stop' and 'restart' in sever different
>> >> namespaces. The errors seem to have appeared after updating
>> >> Capistrano
>> >> to 2.4.3 from 2.1.0. Also, I updated Ruby from 1.8.4 to 1.8.6
>> >> "enterprise".
>>
>> >> Can I no longer make tasks named 'start'?
>>
>> >> Has anyone else seen this?
>>
>> >> Thanks!
>>
>> > >
>>
>>
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> >
>
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