Thank you Lee. See http://pastie.org/9963632
I've included the copy.rake file too, just in case you need it. On Thursday, February 19, 2015 at 2:11:23 PM UTC-6, Lee Hambley wrote: > > Alright, so sounds like you need Capistrano after all. (Welcome back ;-)) > so the obvious next step would be for you to share (ideally a Github gist, > or pastie, or something *not* inline in the email) your configuration. > We'll need your Capfile, deploy.rb, and your stage > (./config/deploy/________.rb) file to figure out what's not working. I > understand your need for privacy, but if you butcher too much of the host > config you might butcher out the detail that we need to diagnose the issue. > If you prefer feel free to mail that stuff to Jonathan and I off-list, and > whatever the solution, we can post a follow up to the list maintaining your > privacy once we diagnose the issue. > > You will need the no-scm plugin, we just have to look a little harder to > find out why it's not working. > > Lee Hambley > http://lee.hambley.name/ > +49 (0) 170 298 5667 > > On 19 February 2015 at 19:43, <deadb...@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote: > >> The system that is in place now uses cap (v2) and uses rollbacks and >> simply copies the contents of . to |host|. I found when I tried that same >> setup with cap (v3), it broke as cap now requires the use of a SCM which >> was never used in the current setup. >> >> I tried that plugin to add functionality to cap, that is the ability to >> simply upload <something> to |host| instead of using git. I was hoping >> that cap would then continue on with creating releases, symlinks, >> rollbacks, etc.. When I read the blog post you wrote, I removed the plugin >> and tried again, using native cap without extras and ran into the problem >> of cap requiring SCM. >> >> If I understand what you wrote correctly below, cap must have an SCM. >> Which I believe is different from cap 2, correct? >> >> The plugin does upload the archive.tar.gz file, but it appears to be >> doing it twice. The file is uploaded and expanded in .../releases/2015.../ >> as it should be. (See log on previous post.) In its .rake file I see >> >> on roles(tar_roles) do >> >> # Make sure the release directory exists >> >> puts "==> release_path: #{release_path} is created on #{tar_roles} >> roles <==" >> >> The last lines output is shown twice when I run a simple cap deploy, >> which I don't understand. In this simple test setup, there is only a single >> target so not sure why 2x. I don't know if the problem lies with the >> plugin or cap or my config/deploy.rb file. >> >> I maybe off but it looks like the copy action is being called twice. >> Which I suspect has something to do with tasks and dependencies, but since >> I don't understand cap much I could be off (and I know even less about >> ruby, other than I seriously dislike its syntax as it is not like anything >> I'm used to using. :) ) >> >> The apps being deployed are not ruby apps. The |host| targets do not >> have access to the repo (which isn't git/svn/hg anyway). The machine where >> cap is run from does have access to the "repo" and copies the files >> locally, and then the files can be uploaded to the targets. >> >> Given the scenario I'm dealing with, what do the capistrano experts >> advise? I could even live with a modified version of rollbacks where >> backup tarballs are kept on the host where cap runs from. Thinking that if >> I have to use Rake+SSHKit, then maybe the way to go would be create a task >> that creates a local tarball as a backup first. >> >> Thank you, >> -deadbeef >> >> >> >> On Thursday, February 19, 2015 at 11:27:57 AM UTC-6, Lee Hambley wrote: >>> >>> Well, that might be true, but in this case I think it's a justified >>> statement :) As I understood it, he's trying to use a plugin I'm not >>> familiar with to remove functionality he doesn't need from Cap, usually >>> "cap does more than I want" means I ought to drop down and use Rake+SSHKit. >>> (Although, admittedly, until we get around to *actually* making the SCM >>> optional, there may be valid, mature workflows which mandate the lack of an >>> SCM, and require rollbacks, bundler, rvm, etc) I don't think that's the >>> case here though. And, if it is, I can't help him since I don't know what >>> the no-scm plugin is doing wrong in this case (seems like not even >>> uploading the tarball from what I can see) >>> >>> Lee Hambley >>> http://lee.hambley.name/ >>> +49 (0) 170 298 5667 >>> >>> On 19 February 2015 at 18:24, Jonathan Rochkind <roch...@jhu.edu> wrote: >>> >>>> Even if you're doing tarball uploads, mightn't you still want >>>> rollbacks, migrations, changelogs, etc? I understand that Cap might not >>>> support that, but it's not obvious to me that it would be 'wasted' if it >>>> did! >>>> >>>> On 2/19/15 12:22 PM, Lee Hambley wrote: >>>> >>>>> The post I linked replaces Cap, since if you're not using an SCM you >>>>> lose most of the benefit of Cap. If you need a list of files throwing >>>>> into a tarball and uploading, on more than one machine then you need to >>>>> look at Rake+SSHKit which are two thirds of Capistrano, but Capistrano >>>>> specifically adds rollbacks, plugins for Ruby, Rails, Migrations, >>>>> changelogs/etc, it's all wasted on you if you're just doing tarball >>>>> uploads though. >>>>> >>>>> Lee Hambley >>>>> http://lee.hambley.name/ >>>>> +49 (0) 170 298 5667 >>>>> >>>>> On 19 February 2015 at 18:01, <deadb...@gmail.com >>>>> <mailto:deadb...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I've read your posting and it is making some sense. If using the >>>>> file/FileList task, what value should :scm be set to such that a >>>>> 'cap deploy' does not try to run git? >>>>> >>>>> -deadbeef >>>>> >>>>> On Thursday, February 19, 2015 at 6:31:45 AM UTC-6, Lee Hambley >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Everyone always overengineers this, look at this blog post I >>>>> wrote which does exactly what you need: >>>>> http://lee.hambley.name/__2013/06/11/using-capistrano-__v3- >>>>> with-chef.html >>>>> <http://lee.hambley.name/2013/06/11/using-capistrano-v3-with >>>>> -chef.html> >>>>> Fewer tools, less code, easier to follow. 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