I have a set of rake tasks where I need to invoke capistrano at some point. Edwin Goei's blog suggests shelling out to capistrano via "sh".
Is there a simpler way? It would seem you should be able to call the appropriate tasks programmatically. Thanks in advance.
Yes, Capistrano has programmatic access to the command-line components. If you want to call them from a rake task, though, you need to do a little extra work.
task :deploy
require 'rubygems'
require 'capistrano'
require 'capistrano/cli'
parameters = ["deploy"] # this is an array of the strings that come after
# cap on the command line. e.g.,
# ["deploy", "-S", "revision=1024"] gives you local var
# revision in your deploy.rb.
# The following is required ONLY when you run Capistrano 2+ from Rake,
# because Rake adds the methods from FileUtils to Object. FileUtils includes
# a method called symlink which interferes with Capistrano's symlink task.
Capistrano::Configuration::Namespaces::Namespace.class_eval { undef :symlink }
Capistrano::CLI.parse(parameters).execute!
end
For capistrano 3:
http://capistranorb.com/documentation/advanced-features/capistrano-pure-ruby/
require 'capistrano/all'
stages = "production"
set :application, 'my_app_name'
set :repo_url, 'git@github.com:capistrano/capistrano.git'
set :deploy_to, '/var/www/'
set :stage, :production
role :app, %w{}
require 'capistrano/setup'
require 'capistrano/deploy'
Dir.glob('capistrano/tasks/*.cap').each { |r| import r }
Capistrano::Application.invoke("production")
Capistrano::Application.invoke("deploy")
Jonathan, your mileage may vary by doing something like set(:shell, false) to stop capistrano running tasks in a sub-sh-shell.
Just a thought, feel free to ping me if you need a hand though.