Question

Our capistrano setup is: ssh with regular user, but deploy to a location requiring sudo permissions to create files.

I want to run the specific capistrano command run "cd #{configuration[:releases_path]} && #{decompress(remote_filename).join(" ")} && rm #{remote_filename}" using sudo. Is there a neat way to over ride it?

def distribute!
  upload(filename, remote_filename)
  run "cd #{configuration[:releases_path]} && #{decompress(remote_filename).join(" ")} && rm #{remote_filename}"
end

Answer 1

I believe you can use the “sudo” function inside capistrano e.g.

def distribute!
  upload(filename, remote_filename)
  sudo "cd #{configuration[:releases_path]} && #{decompress(remote_filename).join(" ")} && rm #{remote_filename}"
end