Question

I have defined a custom Capistrano task that’s supposed to run locally (on my development machine):

desc "Push code to Dreamhost"
task :push do
  run "git push dreamhost"
end

however when I try to run cap push it executes it on the remote machine, ie.

* executing `push'
* executing "git push dreamhost"
  servers: ["ec2-999-99-999-999.compute-1.amazonaws.com"]

how do I get it to execute locally instead?

Answer 1

I suggest using :

system("git push dreamhost")

or

output = %x[git push dreamhost]

That’s just plain Ruby !