Comments on: Handling a staging environment with capistrano / rails

By: Evan Reeves

Evan Reeves — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 01:24:01 +0000

I don’t think that Capistrano supports role definition within tasks as of version 2.5.21. I tried to configure my tasks similarly and received errors when trying to define my roles in a similar manner.

By: Thomas Peter Berntsen

Thomas Peter Berntsen — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:19:41 +0000

Thanks very much for the elegant and useful solution.

By: Mathias Stjernström

Mathias Stjernström — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:26:59 +0000

Thanks Zeeshan!

Thats a great addition!

Sheers!

By: Zeeshan

Zeeshan — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 22:42:30 +0000

To add warning/notice if you do not specify either production/staging stage, one can do following:

#####################################
…
set :stage, nil
…

task :before_deploy do
abort “ERROR: No stage specified. Please specify one of: staging, production (e.g. `cap staging deploy’)” if stage.nil?
end

desc “Run tasks in production enviroment.”
task :production do
# Production nodes
set :stage, “production”
…
end

desc “Run tasks in staging enviroment.”
task :staging do
set :stage, “staging”
…
end

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By: Mathias Stjernström

Mathias Stjernström — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 08:46:10 +0000

Superb!

Glad I could help.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:25:10 +0000

Ah, got it. Thanks Mathias!

By: Mathias Stjernström

Mathias Stjernström — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:45:07 +0000

Hi Jason,

Thanks for your comment. My solution to multiple deploy targets is not dependent on the multistage plugin/gem. Maybe I was to unclear in my post.

If you have any references in your deploy.rb to the multistage plugins try comment those out or uninstall the multistage plugin and I thing you will be fine.

If you do want to use the multistage plugin you can follow the instructions on Jamis blog here: http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2007/7/23/capistrano-multistage

Thanks.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 02:57:32 +0000

I like what you’ve done and implemented it. However, I’ve run into an issue when attempting to use it. The warning prompt displays, but the multistage plugin complains about no stage being specified.

1 2	* == Currently executing `multistage:ensure' No stage specified. Please specify one of: staging, beta, production (e.g. `cap staging deploy')

Any ideas?