You can also use a cap task to invoke another cap process. I've used this
technique to deploy 4 separate applications with what seems like 1 cap command.
But underneath all that is happening is a series of system("cap other task
command line").
On Nov 2, 2010, at 11:32 AM, bs <[email protected]> wrote:
> Can you comment on the nature of the delicacy? Will I not be able to
> rely on this in future versions to essentially reset the state of the
> Capfile during runtime? Not being in Ruby land, I'm much more
> concerned about relying on the internals of the Capistrano API (like
> reset! of @variables) that might change than I am about higher level
> kludges (deploying different pieces to different servers). So far,
> Capistrano has been extremely helpful in replacing the myriad shell
> scripts that I have written in the past to do this type of deployment
> and I'd love to continue using it as long as I'm not putting myself in
> danger of having a broken script in a point release.
>
> The future versions of Capistrano sound very promising. A general
> deployment DSL would be extremely helpful.
>
> Thanks for all your help.
>
>
> On Nov 2, 1:03 pm, Lee Hambley <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Looks like a pretty delicate hack to me, and that whilst this stuff lives in
>> the same repo, it's deployed to different servers, in different
>> configurations. In Ruby land, that's a smell that your repos are merged, and
>> you should break them out.
>>
>> One of the overriding philosophies of Capistano is that a deploy should be
>> atomic and repeatable… so "I want to deploy bits and pieces at various
>> times, to various places" will always be a kludge.
>>
>> In future versions the Capistrano core is being reduced to a selection of
>> useful helpers, with sane scaffolding and defaults, this should lead to a
>> situation where it's significantly easier for you to build what you need,
>> without having to deal with so much nonsense.
>>
>> - Lee
>
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