Patrick, Thanks for your help, and point taken.
My problem, probably stupid, is that I'm not sure where to put the AaronsCopyStrategy definition. Not in the deploy.rb file, because that gives the error about not knowing what a Capistrano::Deploy::Strategy::Copy is. Aaron On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Patrick Reagan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Aaron - > > You may want to use a different approach rather than patching the existing > implementation. You could create your own strategy that inherits from the > Copy strategy and then implement your own command method. For example: > > module Capistrano > module Deploy > module Strategy > class AaronsCopyStrategy < Copy > > def command > ... > end > > end > end > end > end > > And in your deploy file you can set the strategy to user your custom > strategy: > > set :deploy_via, :aarons_copy_strategy > > Check out this custom strategy that we developed for ideas: > > http://github.com/vigetlabs/capistrano_rsync_with_remote_cache > > I don't think (hope) the multiple nested directory structure is necessary > if you're just doing a one-off implementation for your project. > > p. > > On Sep 2, 2010, at 2:06 PM, Aaron Starr wrote: > > > Hey, all, > > > > I need to use the copy strategy for deployment, but I need to change how > we > > get the latest copy of the code. I'm trying to > > override Capistrano::Deploy::Strategy::Copy.command by putting this in > the > > deploy.rb file: > > > > module Capistrano > > module Deploy > > module Strategy > > class Copy < Base > > private > > def command > > @command ||= [...] > > end > > [...] > > > > Clearly, that's not very clever. The error I'm getting is this: > > > > ./config/deploy.rb:115:in `load': uninitialized constant > > #<Class:0x101757b80>::Capistrano::Deploy::Strategy::Base (NameError) > > > > So, is there some way to override that method? Or, some other way that I > > can't see to write my own repository-retrieval, but otherwise keep all > the > > functionality of the copy strategy? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Aaron > > > > -- > > * You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Capistrano" group. > > * To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > * To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<capistrano%[email protected]>For > more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/capistrano?hl=en > > -- > Patrick Reagan <[email protected]> > > > > > > -- > * You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Capistrano" group. > * To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > * To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<capistrano%[email protected]>For > more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/capistrano?hl=en -- * You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Capistrano" group. * To post to this group, send email to [email protected] * To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/capistrano?hl=en
