Question

When I run cap deploy at a certain point towards the end of the process, I get a password prompt…

 ** keeping 5 of 6 deployed releases
  * executing "sudo -p 'sudo password: ' rm -rf /opt/deployed_rails_apps/myapp/releases/20120922200242"
    servers: ["myhost.com"]
    [[e-mail]] executing command
Password:

Is there a way I can get it to complete without prompting me to enter a password?

Here’s my deploy.rb…

require "bundler/capistrano"

require "rvm/capistrano"

set :rvm_ruby_string, 'ruby-1.9.3-p194@run_passenger'

set :rvm_type, :user

set :application, 'myapp'

set :repository, '[e-mail]:fakename/myrepository.git'

set :deploy_to, "/opt/deployed_rails_apps/#{application}"

set :scm, "git"
set :branch, "master"

set :deploy_via, :remote_cache

set :keep_releases, 5
after "deploy:update", "deploy:cleanup"

load 'deploy/assets'

role :app, '[e-mail]'
role :web, '[e-mail]'

namespace :deploy do

  task :start, :roles => :app do
    run "touch #{current_release}/tmp/restart.txt"
  end

  task :stop, :roles => :app do
    # Do nothing.
  end

  desc "Restart Application"
  task :restart, :roles => :app do
    run "touch #{current_release}/tmp/restart.txt"
  end

end

Answer 1

Assuming your deployment user has appropriate permissions and you don’t need to use sudo, you can set :use_sudo to false and Capistrano won’t use it.

Just add

set :use_sudo, false

to your deploy.rb.