Each run() is done in a subshell, so any changes made to your
session's state there are lost. Similarly, you cannot set environment
variables that you want to persist across run calls, either.
The way to do this is to execute all the commands together in a single
run() invocation:
run
First: Capistrano is awesome, it is for sysadmin like regex is to
text processing .
Clearly something where the benefits increase geometrically with
experience.
Second: is there a way to download a directory tree or glob?
A scenario might be retrieving configuration files that were never
It seems unlikely that you'd be able to do a glob -- or at least, not a Ruby
glob. Remember that Capistrano is only running on the local host -- the
other end doesn't even need to have Ruby installed.
Ah -- Jamis replied as I typed. Looks like you can download a tree.
I would also guess that you
Peter,
You can use download to grab a directory tree as well, but not a glob.
However, it is a LOT slower than simply creating a tgz file on the
server and downloading that.
download /opt/nginx/conf, existing/$CAPISTRANO:HOST$
- Jamis
On Oct 8, 2008, at 8:04 AM, Peter Booth wrote:
Hello all,
Maybe this ha been answered before but could not find the solution ...
I simply want to change directory within a task to be able to run a
command in a specific directory
but it fails
here is my test task :
desc TEST
task :test do
run cd /home/myaccount/mydirectory
