Access to host name in task

[Robin Bowes]

Hi,

I know that the run function can get access to the host name using the
$CAPISTRANO:HOST$ variable, eg.

task :peer, :roles => :peer do
# stuff
run "some_command $(LC_ALL=C host $CAPISTRANO:HOST$ | awk '/has
address /{print $4}' | head -n 1)"
end

Is it possible to get access to the same thing within the task itself?

eg. I'd like to do something like:

task :peer, :roles => :peer do
# stuff
require 'resolv'
host_ip = Resolv::DNS.new.getaddress("$CAPISTRANO:HOST$")
run "some_command #{host_ip}"
end

Is that at all possible?

Thanks,

R.
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[Lee Hambley]

Sorry Robin, not possible for a variety of boring internal reasons, you should maybe consider adding metadata to your server definitions, where you can loop the data you need (the :no_release => true is just arbitrary metadata, for example)

- Lee

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