holy crap - it worked. stupid lil' comma! :) I'll for sure add a PR for the
docs - happy to contribute. Thanks for your help Lee.

On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Lee Hambley <lee.hamb...@gmail.com> wrote:

> You missed a comma, Ruby will implicitly join two strings:
>
> $ irb
> irb(main):001:0> puts "i forgot" "how to write docs"
> i forgothow to write docs
> => nil
>
> Easy enough mistake to make, if you have the time a download!() example
> would be very welcome in the SSHKit EXAMPLES.md file. (We covered "upload!"
> and friends there)
>
> Lee Hambley
> http://lee.hambley.name/
> +49 (0) 170 298 5667
>
> On 6 May 2015 at 21:59, Joel Taylor <joelatay...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Ok, so I tried that as well - see the commented out 3rd line. But this
>> doesn't work either, it runs the command on the remote server right? And
>> that's not how SCP works.
>>
>> On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Lee Hambley <lee.hamb...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Right, so it should run in an on('someserver') block. Its confusing
>>> because run_locally is a legacy API you can also do on(:local) but that's
>>> not what you want either.
>>> On 6 May 2015 9:41 pm, "Joel Taylor" <joelatay...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ha! It's not, but I found this:
>>>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19478733/capistrano-3-0-file-transfers
>>>> which lead to:
>>>> https://github.com/capistrano/sshkit/blob/v1.7.1/lib/sshkit/backends/netssh.rb#L87
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 3:40 PM, Lee Hambley <lee.hamb...@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Where do you see download! () documented?
>>>>> On 6 May 2015 8:48 pm, "Joel Taylor" <joelatay...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I get it - docs are hard and time consuming.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Answer me this, how would you download a file from a remote (staging)
>>>>>> server to your local machine? There's a "download!" method - but I can't
>>>>>> seem to figure it out.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Should it live inside of a "on roles(:all) do" or "run_locally do".
>>>>>>
>>>>>> desc "Export Stage DB to Local DB"
>>>>>> task :to_local do
>>>>>>   #on roles(:all) do
>>>>>>   run_locally do
>>>>>>     puts 'Downloading Staging DB'
>>>>>>     execute 'pwd'
>>>>>>     date_path = Date.today.strftime("%Y/%m/%d")
>>>>>>     download! 
>>>>>> "/var/mysql-backup/#{date_path}/oamm-wp-db_stage-00.sql.gz" 
>>>>>> "oamm-wp-db_stage-00.sql.gz"
>>>>>>   end
>>>>>> end
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ➜ cap staging sync_db:to_local
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Downloading Staging DB
>>>>>>
>>>>>> INFO [4c3b8d6b] Running /usr/bin/env pwd as myuser@localhost
>>>>>>
>>>>>> DEBUG [4c3b8d6b] Command: /usr/bin/env pwd
>>>>>>
>>>>>> DEBUG [4c3b8d6b]         /Users/myuser/Sites/mysite.dev
>>>>>>
>>>>>> INFO [4c3b8d6b] Finished in 0.015 seconds with exit status 0 
>>>>>> (successful).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> (Backtrace restricted to imported tasks)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> cap aborted!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory - 
>>>>>> /var/mysql-backup/2015/05/06/oamm-wp-db_stage-00.sql.gzoamm-wp-db_stage-00.sql.gz
>>>>>>
>>>>>> /Users/myuser/Sites/mysite.dev/lib/capistrano/tasks/sync_db.rb:14:in 
>>>>>> `block (3 levels) in <top (required)>'
>>>>>>
>>>>>> /Users/myuser/Sites/mysite.dev/lib/capistrano/tasks/sync_db.rb:10:in 
>>>>>> `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Tasks: TOP => sync_db:to_local
>>>>>>
>>>>>> (See full trace by running task with --trace)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Lee Hambley <lee.hamb...@gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Sorry. Docs are the best we can do. The `on()` block is where
>>>>>>> Capistrano starts, and Rake ends, outside of `on()`… what server should
>>>>>>> things be run on?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Lee Hambley
>>>>>>> http://lee.hambley.name/
>>>>>>> +49 (0) 170 298 5667
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 6 May 2015 at 16:55, Joel Taylor <joelatay...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Yeh, but that doesn't really tell me why the "on" block is needed.
>>>>>>>> Or what it really does. Is that Rake DSL?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Docs are def. not for newbies.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Wednesday, May 6, 2015 at 1:05:59 AM UTC-4, Lee Hambley wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Capistranorb.com ?
>>>>>>>>> On 6 May 2015 12:53 am, "Joel Taylor" <joela...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Thanks Lee,
>>>>>>>>>> I guess that makes sense - but is there documentation about this?
>>>>>>>>>> Or do you just "know" it? :)
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Thx!!
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On Tuesday, May 5, 2015 at 4:13:29 PM UTC-4, Lee Hambley wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> You're missing the "on()" block, you need to wrap the task
>>>>>>>>>>> inside something like:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> task :downloaddb do
>>>>>>>>>>>   on roles(:db) do                           # <<<-----------
>>>>>>>>>>> you missed this bit!
>>>>>>>>>>>     # everything from your task here
>>>>>>>>>>>   end
>>>>>>>>>>> end
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Lee Hambley
>>>>>>>>>>> http://lee.hambley.name/
>>>>>>>>>>> +49 (0) 170 298 5667
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On 5 May 2015 at 21:26, Joel Taylor <joela...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Versions:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>    - Ruby 2.0.0p576
>>>>>>>>>>>>    - Capistrano 3.4.0
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> I'm learning Ruby + Capistrano. I'm trying to write a task that
>>>>>>>>>>>> will pull down a file of a remote server. A simple start so I 
>>>>>>>>>>>> thought. :)
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Here's the task: http://pastie.org/10160640
>>>>>>>>>>>> I have it under: /lib/capistrano/tasks/sync_db.rb
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> I can see the task available when I run: cap -T
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> cap sync_db:to_local             # Download and import DB to
>>>>>>>>>>>> local
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> However, I'm getting this output/error:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Downloading Staging DB
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> (Backtrace restricted to imported tasks)
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> cap aborted!
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> NoMethodError: undefined method `execute' for main:Object
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> /.../lib/capistrano/tasks/sync_db.rb:10:in `block (2 levels) in
>>>>>>>>>>>> <top (required)>'
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Tasks: TOP => sync_db:to_local
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> (See full trace by running task with --trace)
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> the 'download!' command isn't working either ... what am I
>>>>>>>>>>>> missing???
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