Saved my time!

Please read my reply:

http://groups.google.com/group/capistrano/browse_thread/thread/d4d30393b6f41605

Thanks,
~Wayne

This is a good capistrano variables example and also a very useful recipe!

I’ve started using this recipe and blogged it in spanish at my blog: http://spejman.blogspot.com/2007/04/logs-del-servidor-con-capistrano.html

Thanks for your post!

So I’ll do

ask :server_port, "Port number", "3000"
puts server_port


If the value is given at command line via -S server_port=5000 then it won’t ask, otherwise prompt.

Here’s the same action using local variables:

task :log do
  lines ||= 100
  rails_env ||= 'production'
  # lines     = configuration.variables[:lines] || 100
  # rails_env = configuration.variables[:rails_env] || 'production'
  env   = ENV['RAILS_ENV'] || 'production'
  run "tail -n #{lines} #{deploy_to}/#{shared_dir}/log/#{rails_env}.log" do |ch, stream, out|
    puts out
  end
end

But when I run cap log -s lines=10 it still looks for the default 100.

I’ll ping it to the capistrano mailing list/Jamis and see if anyone can reproduce this.

Anything passed with dash-s becomes a local variable in your Capistrano recipes.