Question

My Ruby on Rails application is not the root file of my git repository. Is there a variable that I can set so that Capistrano knows what directory to run rake when I ask it to run migrations?

Answer 1

I would do it by overriding the deploy:migrate recipe like this:

namespace :deploy do
   task :migrate do
     run "cd /path/to/rails/root; rake RAILS_ENV=#{rails_env} #{migrate_env} db:migrate"
   end
end