Harm,

File.exists? checks your local machine, you have to run() something remotely
that checks for the file. (See man (1) test)

- Lee

On 13 August 2010 08:58, harm <[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I ran into a truly vexing problem. My code:
>    after("deploy:symlink") do
>        if File.exists? "#{previous_release}/db/promotions"
>            run "cp -r #{previous_release}/db/promotions
> #{current_release}/db/"
>        else
>            raise
>        end
>    end
>
> The if-condition _always_ returns false. And I know for a fact that
> directory exists. The 'releases' variable contains the correct
> directory, I checked.
> I'm doing something horribly wrong. Can someone shed some light on
> this? I'm using capistrano 2.5.19.
> As a side note, this problem only occurred after I upgraded my
> computer, in the past this script worked. So it might be so that the
> capistrano version changed.
>
> Thanks,
>
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