I just got bitten by this again today as I updated Capistrano this
morning. I had to hack the perforce.rb file again to make it work.
Can anyone please help me override the private authentication method and
add a new variable via my code and not by hacking Capistrano?
Thank you,
-=Randy
On Wednesday, April 4, 2012 7:09:08 PM UTC-7, RandyInLA wrote:
>
> Greetings!
>
> My Perforce admin recently decided to force us to add the unicode
> variable, "-C utf8", for all perforce transactions. The unicode var
> can't be part of :p4sync_flags, nor can it be added as any extra
> options. Per the Perforce syntax, it has to live within the existing
> Capistrano authentication method. I can hack the actual perforce.rb
> file, adding the new variable & update the authentication Private
> method to include it, but can't figure out how to overload/override
> the authentication method in my recipes! I'd rather either override
> the methods in my recipe or submit a change to update Capistrano. I
> copied the perforce.rb file, made my changes and pulled out everything
> else that shouldn't change:
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> module Capistrano
> module Deploy
> module SCM
>
> class Perforce < Base
> private
>
> # override
> def authentication
> [ p4port && "-p #{ p4port }",
> p4user && "-u #{ p4user }",
> p4passwd && "-P #{ p4passwd }",
> p4client && "-c #{ p4client }",
> p4unicode && "-C #{ p4unicode }" ].compact.join(" ")
> end
>
> # new
> def p4unicode
> variable(:p4unicode)
> end
>
> end
> end
> end
> end
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
> I've tried putting this in environment.rb, a separate file under /
> initializers & deploy.rb, all without success. I currently have it
> working by hacking the original perforce.rb file in the rubygem and
> that just feels dirty. If anyone can help me override this via my
> deploy.rb file or walk me through how to submit a change to
> Capistrano, I'd be very grateful!
>
> Thanks!
> -=Randy
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