Ok. I guess that will have to do (not much choice :). Seems like a workable solution
what might be nice, just thinking about it would be something like: cap upload(dir_a, dir_b, dir_c) I know cap depends on rake (and I think i'm in the minority) but still a thought. this would also allow cap deploy(production) On 01/10/2007, at 1:39 AM, Jamis Buck wrote: > Capistrano interprets all bare arguments as tasks to be executed. > The multistage extension makes this work by defining tasks for each > stage, so that "cap production deploy" first calls the "production" > task, and then calls "deploy". > > If you want to pass parameters to your tasks, you can do it via > environment variables: > > cap upload FILES=dir_a,dir_b,dir_c > > Then, your upload task gets the FILES env var, parses it, and > processes the directories as needed: > > task :upload do > files = ENV['FILES'].split(/,/) > # ... > end > > - Jamis > > On Sep 30, 2007, at 1:14 AM, Adam Salter wrote: > >> >> OK, Here's the problem... >> I'm using Cap as a basic shell script replacement (I don't use SCM >> etc) I like that it gives you descriptions and namespaces and such >> for >> tasks, and it's all going swimmingly - except... >> I'd like to be able to read the arguments off the command into an >> array... >> >> cap upload dir_a dir_b dir_c >> >> I know that the capistrano multistage extension reads several items >> from the command line, so it should be possible. >> >> If i just execute the above as is, I get a "task dir_a not >> found" (although I can still use the arguments with ARGV[]). >> >> TIA, >> -Adam >> >> >> >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/capistrano -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
