File.exists?() in deploy.rb

[susfour]

in a cap task, if I 'puts File.exists?(current_path)' I get false
returned! Why is that?

I've got a task that creates a directory in :after_symlink. when I
cap deploy, this mkdir works fine. But when I cap deploy:migrations,
the mkdir fails saying that the file already exists. I added an
unless File.exists on the run command for the directory I'm creating,
but it continues to try to run the mkdir.

Can anyone explain what's going on?

[Jamis Buck]

Because File.exists?() tests on the local machine, and current_path
exists on the remote machine.

Try running that task after update_code, instead of after symlink.
That way it will get called at the right time for your migration to
see it.

- Jamis

[Sean Cribbs]

Since that's regular Ruby code and not inside a remote execution call,
you are executing that on your local machine.

Sean

[susfour]

of course. I knew it was something simple. thanks guys.

On Aug 16, 2:41 pm, "Jamis Buck" <ja...@37signals.com> wrote:
> Because File.exists?() tests on the local machine, and current_path
> exists on the remote machine.
>
> Try running that task after update_code, instead of after symlink.
> That way it will get called at the right time for your migration to
> see it.
>
> - Jamis
>