File.exists?() runs on your local machine. You'll need to test for remote
files using bash script and the `test` program (man 1 test)

- Lee Hambley

On 2 January 2013 18:34, byrnejb <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have this in my deploy.rb
>
> run( %Q( echo $(ls -la /var/data/hll_th/etc/hll_th.d/database.yml) ) )
>   puts( File.exists?( "/var/data/hll_th/etc/hll_th.d/database.yml" ).to_s )
>
> Running that task gives this result:
>
>  ** [out :: inet01.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca] -rw-r--r-- 1 theheart theheart
> 0 Jan 2 11:59 /var/data/hll_th/etc/hll_th.d/database.yml
>     command finished in 21ms
> false
>
> Why am I getting a false return from File.exists?() when testing for a
> file that the remote system shows as being present?
>
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