Question

Deploying an app first time with Capistrano, but having problem running the cap deploy:update task on Rails 3.1.3, Capistrano 2.9.0, RVM 1.8.6 and Ubuntu server 10.10. Should not be a permissions issue as far as I can see. Been banging my head against this now for a while, thankful for any directions.

drphil@mumindalen:~/Rails/testapp$ cap deploy:update
  * executing `deploy:update'
 ** transaction: start
  * executing `deploy:update_code'
    executing locally: "git ls-remote git@my_server:~/testapp/ HEAD"
git@23.23.23.23.'s password: 
command finished in 8892ms
  * executing "git clone -q git@my_server:~/testapp/         /home/deploy/testapp/releases/20111211183654 && cd /home/deploy/testapp/releases/20111211183654 && git checkout -q -b deploy f473e207b15d73d2fa9aa32ab1dbeec98471153d && (echo f473e207b15d73d2fa9aa32ab1dbeec98471153d > /home/deploy/testapp/releases/20111211183654/REVISION)"
servers: ["my_server"]
Password: 
[my_server] executing command
command finished in 1695ms
* executing `deploy:finalize_update'
triggering before callbacks for `deploy:finalize_update'
* executing `deploy:assets:symlink'
* executing "rm -rf /home/deploy/testapp/releases/20111211183654/public/assets &&\\\n        mkdir -p /home/deploy/testapp/releases/20111211183654/public &&\\\n        mkdir -p /home/deploy/testapp/shared/assets &&\\\n        ln -s /home/deploy/testapp/shared/assets /home/deploy/testapp/releases/20111211183654/public/assets"
servers: ["my_server"]
[my_server] executing command
command finished in 1117ms
* executing "chmod -R g+w /home/deploy/testapp/releases/20111211183654"
servers: ["my_server"]
[my_server] executing command
command finished in 614ms
* executing "rm -rf /home/deploy/testapp/releases/20111211183654/log /home/deploy/testapp/releases/20111211183654/public/system /home/deploy/testapp/releases/20111211183654/tmp/pids &&\\\n      mkdir -p /home/deploy/testapp/releases/20111211183654/public &&\\\n      mkdir -p /home/deploy/testapp/releases/20111211183654/tmp &&\\\n      ln -s /home/deploy/testapp/shared/log /home/deploy/testapp/releases/20111211183654/log &&\\\n      ln -s /home/deploy/testapp/shared/system /home/deploy/testapp/releases/20111211183654/public/system &&\\\n      ln -s /home/deploy/testapp/shared/pids /home/deploy/testapp/releases/20111211183654/tmp/pids"
servers: ["my_server"]
[my_server] executing command
command finished in 1022ms
* executing "find /home/deploy/testapp/releases/20111211183654/public/images /home/deploy/testapp/releases/20111211183654/public/stylesheets /home/deploy/testapp/releases/20111211183654/pu## Heading ##blic/javascripts -exec touch -t 201112111837.12 {} ';'; true"
servers: ["my_server"]
[my_server] executing command
*** [err :: my_server] find:
*** [err :: my_server] "/home/deploy/testapp/releases/20111211183654/public/images"
*** [err :: my_server] : Filen eller katalogen finns inte
*** [err :: my_server] 
*** [err :: my_server] find:
*** [err :: my_server] "/home/deploy/testapp/releases/20111211183654/public/stylesheets"
*** [err :: my_server] : Filen eller katalogen finns inte
*** [err :: my_server] 
*** [err :: my_server] find:
*** [err :: my_server] "/home/deploy/testapp/releases/20111211183654/public/javascripts"
*** [err :: my_server] : Filen eller katalogen finns inte
*** [err :: my_server] 
command finished in 1024ms
triggering after callbacks for `deploy:update_code'
  * executing `deploy:assets:precompile'
  * executing "cd /home/deploy/testapp/releases/20111211183654 && rake RAILS_ENV=production RAILS_GROUPS=assets assets:precompile"
servers: ["my_server"]
[my_server] executing command
*** [err :: my_server] sh:
*** [err :: my_server] rake: not found
*** [err :: my_server] 
command finished in 1440ms
*** [deploy:update_code] rolling back
  * executing "rm -rf /home/deploy/testapp/releases/20111211183654; true"
servers: ["my_server"]
[my_server] executing command
command finished in 727ms
failed: "sh -c 'cd /home/deploy/testapp/releases/20111211183654 && rake RAILS_ENV=production RAILS_GROUPS=assets assets:precompile'" on my_server

Answer 1

It was an issue with different versions of RVM on the development box and the server and that I had not set up deploy.rb properly to work with RVM. Been digging around for hours thinking it was some kind of bug. Oh well.

Got it working using this in deploy.rb:

$:.unshift(File.expand_path('./lib', ENV['rvm_path']))
require "rvm/capistrano"
set :rvm_ruby_string, 'ruby-1.9.2-p290'
set :rvm_type, :user