I totally agree, Ara. That approach gets a hearty endorsement from me.
Still, it'd be nice to make it easier to do basic shell scripting
directly via Capistrano. Even if it was a helper that just uploaded the
script to /tmp on the remote servers and invoked it.

- Jamis

On 1/12/09 10:21 AM, ara.t.howard wrote:
> 
> On Jan 11, 2009, at 9:29 PM, Jamis Buck wrote:
> 
>>> more clear anyway, though I'm definitely not sure how one could do
>>> "&"...
> 
> 
> fork{ fork{ system command } and exit! } and Process.wait   # this is  
> '&'
> 
> the biggest issue, really, is people doing crappy shell scripting that  
> should be done in ruby.  what we do is make rake tasks to perform any  
> key operation, they all cap run command simply looking like
> 
>    run 'rake some:thing:like:this'
> 
> which vastly simplifies getting deployment right.
> 
> just food for thought.
> 
> cheers.
> 
> a @ http://codeforpeople.com/
> --
> we can deny everything, except that we have the possibility of being  
> better. simply reflect on that.
> h.h. the 14th dalai lama
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > 


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