getting started on capistrano

rubyonrails-talk
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i'm trying to set up capistrano deployment for the first time. going through the manuals on the ruby on rails site seem pretty self explanatory but when i run rake deply, it fails. it shows a long string of commands that it was trying to run when it failed but i don't see any specific errors or anything.

plus, when i try to use rake show_deploy_tasks, i get an error saying that it doesn't know how to build the task. am i doing something wrong here? where can i go to find out what it going wrong?

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ok, sorry. i am able to see the errors, i wasn't looking in the right place.

the error says "bash: line 2: svn: command not found"

i don't understand why it's saying that though because svn is installed on that server. that also doesn't tell me why my other rake tasks aren't working:

rake show_deploy_tasks and rake restart

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When you ssh in as the user you specified, can you always type svn on a prompt by itself to get svn?

it might not be reading your .bash_profile on login, if this is the case, you can add to your deploy.rb file somewhere:

set :svn, "/usr/bin/svn"

or wherever the full path to svn is you can find it by typing: whereis svn

And, there are no tasks like the one you specified.

You can issue:

rake remote:show_tasks and rake remote:restart

which are helper methods for:

rake remote:exec ACTION="show_tasks" and rake remote:exec ACTION="restart"

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thank you. i did figure out how to add the path for svn, and that is working now. any ideas why it's not picking up the path in my .bash_login?

also, you said that those rake tasks did not exist... did they exist with an older version of capistrano? i was getting my information straight off of the ruby on rails site:

http://manuals.rubyonrails.com/read/chapter/98#page264

the 2nd paragraph down on the deploying section says that you can run "rake show_deploy_tasks" i did try your suggestion and that worked great though.

Thanks