CLI.ui.ask does not prompt

[Gerhardus Geldenhuis]

Hi
I can't get the following code snippet to work.

task :promptme, :roles => :gg do
set(:user) { Capistrano::CLI.ui.ask("User name: ") }
end

I expected it to prompt me on the command line when running cap
promptme but it does not prompt me at all.

cap promptme
* executing `promptme'

When running the command it just exits immediately.

Any ideas?

Best Regards

[Jamis Buck]

When passing a block to set(), the block is not evaluated immediately,
but is instead evaluated the next time the variable is referenced. It's
called "lazy evaluation", and lets you defer the evaluation until the
variable is actually needed.

If you want it evaluated immediately, don't use a block:

set(:user, Capistrano::CLI.ui.ask("User name: "))

- Jamis

[Xazoola]

thanks I was having the same problem :)