This may help https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano/pull/32
On Dec 5, 2012, at 6:43 AM, Jonathan Rochkind <rochk...@jhu.edu> wrote: > I am actually still unable to find any docs of the ROLES env variable, or " > ROLE(S)FILTER" (not even sure what that means!). Can anyone point me to the > right place? > ________________________________________ > From: capistrano@googlegroups.com [capistrano@googlegroups.com] on behalf of > Jonathan Rochkind [rochk...@jhu.edu] > Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2012 9:40 AM > To: capistrano@googlegroups.com > Subject: RE: [capistrano] precompile assets task, roles > > Ah, okay, I'll look around for docs. (ROLES seemed to do what I needed at > first, but clearly not! Still confused on what it does, but i'll look around, > although had trouble finding docs before, I just got it from someone elses > (misleading) blog post). > > What I _want_ to do is "Run only the tasks applicable for role X, on the > servers for role X. Pretend nothing but role X exists." > > Make sense? Is there no way to do it? Am I a unique snowflake, or is this a > common use case? (It seems to me like it would be common). I am indeed using > custom roles -- but I don't want to have to remember the current > configuration of which servers have which roles (nor do I neccesarily want to > run ALL tasks on that server(s), I just want the run the ones for certain > roles). Is there any way to set that up? > > If not, and I'm not a unique snowflake, would the capistrano committers look > kindly on a pull request to add the feature, if I can figure out how? Any > comments on what the end-user-facing cli api should look like (since ROLES is > apparently already taken!) > ________________________________________ > From: capistrano@googlegroups.com [capistrano@googlegroups.com] on behalf of > Donovan Bray [donno...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 11:55 PM > To: capistrano@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: [capistrano] precompile assets task, roles > > ROLES probably doesn't do what you think it does; look at the docs for > ROLE(S)FILTER as well. > > I've never found either to be useful so I avoid them like the plague. > > Instead I build custom roles. > > I define stages in tasks and use the server helper instead of the role helper. > > > > On Dec 4, 2012, at 3:15 PM, Jonathan Rochkind <rochk...@jhu.edu> wrote: > >> Huh, actually, it looks like this IS working as expected normally... >> >> Where it broke is when I ran: >> >> `cap ROLES=indexer_jobs deploy` >> >> Somehow when you tell it to only run on servers with listed role... THEN it >> messes up and runs tasks that don't apply to that role on those servers too? >> Maybe? Ring a bell for anyone? Is this a bug? >> >> On 12/4/2012 6:13 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: >>> My cap recipe for a Rails app has just grown to more than one server; >>> >>> I now have a server where the source is installed (in order to then set >>> some rake cronjobs on that server), but it's not actually an app/web >>> server. >>> >>> So I don't want asset precompile to run there. >>> >>> But asset precompile seems to be running there anyway. Looking at the >>> actual code at: >>> https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano/blob/master/lib/capistrano/recipes/deploy/assets.rb >>> >>> >>> I'm not sure why... it looks like it should only run the >>> assets:precompile task on servers with role `assets_role`, which >>> defaults to `web`. >>> >>> This server does not have the role 'web', in fact it only has one role, >>> one custom one I made up ("indexer_jobs")... but the assets:precompile >>> task seems to be triggered there anyway. >>> >>> Anyone have any clues what might be going on, or suggestions for how I >>> can get to the bottom of this? >>> >> >> -- >> * You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Capistrano" group. >> * To post to this group, send email to capistrano@googlegroups.com >> * To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> capistrano+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group >> at http://groups.google.com/group/capistrano?hl=en > > -- > * You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Capistrano" group. > * To post to this group, send email to capistrano@googlegroups.com > * To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > capistrano+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/capistrano?hl=en > > -- > * You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Capistrano" group. > * To post to this group, send email to capistrano@googlegroups.com > * To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > capistrano+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/capistrano?hl=en > > -- > * You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Capistrano" group. > * To post to this group, send email to capistrano@googlegroups.com > * To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > capistrano+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/capistrano?hl=en -- * You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Capistrano" group. * To post to this group, send email to capistrano@googlegroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send email to capistrano+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/capistrano?hl=en
