Question

I have deploy.rb file with this pice of code:

after :deploy do
  run "if [ -d #{rails_root}/tmp/pids ]; then mkdir #{rails_root}/tmp/pids && chmod 0777 #{rails_root}/tmp/pids; fi"
end

There are trouble, you can see it @ screenshot of terminal:

The same troube is with log dir, but it’s just cloned from git repo (via capistrano). When I clone project manualy – the log dir works well.

Two questions:

1. What is pids/log “dir”, if it isn’t file or dir or something else?
2. How can I solve this trouble?

Answer 1

a couple of suggestions:

man test shows

-d file       True if file exists and is a directory.

so you probably mean if [ ! -d xxx/tmp/pids ];

for easier tryout, just run the shell command in a temp directory:

if [ ! -d xxx/tmp/pids ]; then mkdir xxx/tmp/pids && chmod 0777 xxx/tmp/pids; fi

mkdir fails if dirs further up the path don’t exists – use mkdir -p

if [ ! -d xxx/tmp/pids ]; then mkdir -p xxx/tmp/pids && chmod 0777 xxx/tmp/pids; fi

that should do what you intended.

(the screenshots are quite hard to decipher. if you want to get more information on a file type, use ls -l and rather copy the text output here than a screenshot showing mainly your background image…)