Where should I put helper functions in capistrano 3

[Robert Kuzelj]

./lib/capistrano or ./lib/capistrano/tasks or somewhere completely different?

[Bruno Sutic]

Hi,

from what I know /lib/capistrano/tasks/ folder is reserved for *.rake and *.cap files. That means capistrano tasks, not really helpers.

So I think you should be good by putting your helper methods in ./lib/capistrano/helper_methods.rb

Then in config/deploy.rb file:

```

require_relative '../lib/capistrano/helper_methods'

include Capistrano::HelperMethods

task :some_task do

  helper_method

end

```

Hope that helps!

[nifr]

Have a look at this commit:

https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano/commit/7e41233d76fec0aca6877b62b876b7e2c9b85ec0

*.cap files have been deprecated for full rake compatibility.

[Haani Niyaz]

Hi,

I am doing what Bruno mentioned as well, however I'm doing it the following way:

lib/capistrano/helpers.rb

In my Capfile I load it by default with:

Dir.glob('lib/capistrano/**/*.rb').each { |r| import r }