within release_path do; execute "tar zxf /tmp/test.gz"; end appears to untar test.gz in $HOME

[vrsean]

This behavior seems counter-intuitive given within. The problem was resolved with setting the -C argument to release_path for tar but stumped me a bit. execute "pwd" indicated the proper directly, oddly enough.

The code was executed within the context of on roles(:assets) do |host|...basically we are speeding up asset deployment by forking off the compilation of assets in the beginning, tarring up public/assets, and scping that file to /tmp in another task to give some background on the issue.

We are using sshkit 1.5.1.

Can anyone duplicate this issue or shed some light on it?

Thanks,

--sean

[leehambley]

Please re-read this:

Note: In SSHKit, the first parameter of the execute / test / capture methods has a special significance. If the first parameter isn't a Symbol, SSHKit assumes that you want to execute the raw command and the as / within / with methods, SSHKit.config.umask and the command map have no effect.

That means you must call:

within release_path do
  execute :tar, '-zxf', '/tmp/test.gz'
end 

Not:

within release_path do
  execute "tar zxf /tmp/test.gz"
end