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Asked: 2026-05-13T11:28:44+00:00

I’m trying to set up multiple roles, one for live, and another for dev.

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I’m trying to set up multiple roles, one for live, and another for dev. They look like this:

role :live, "example.com"
role :dev, "dev.example.com"

When I run cap deploy, however, it executes for both servers. I’ve tried the following and it always executes on both. 

cap deploy live
cap ROLE=live deploy

What am I missing? I know I can write a custom task that only responds to one role, but I don’t want to have to write a whole bunch of tasks just to tell it to respond to one role or another. Thanks!

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  1. Editorial Team

    Try capistrano multistage:

    http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2007/7/23/capistrano-multistage

    Roles are intended to deploy different segments on different servers, as apposed to deploying the whole platform to just one set of servers.

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