within doesn't work with this

[Jalle19]

It seems all within blocks are simply skipped, i.e. the code inside them doesn't run.

[Jalle19]

@komazarari any idea on how to fix this?

[Jalle19]

e.g. I have a task like this:

namespace :ops do
    desc "Clone ops repository"
    task :clone do
      on roles(:all) do
        within "/home/ubuntu" do
          if test("[ ! -d ops ]")
            execute :"ssh-keyscan", "bitbucket.org > ~/.ssh/known_hosts"
            execute :git, "clone ", fetch(:ops_repo_url)
          end
        end
      end
    end
end

Which is run using this:

before :starting, "ops:clone"

But the whole task is simply skipped. It can't be the roles(:all) because I use that in other tasks and they execute just fine.

[komazarari]

Hi, sorry for late reply and thank you for describing the details.
But I couldn't reproduce this problem, I think this is related to before hook with namespace.

Could you try simply single task by cap <stage> ops:clone --trace and check it works or not?
If your problem is caused by within block, the single task will not work correctly. Otherwise, it's better to check the before hook, for example, try changing before :starting ... to before "deploy:starting", etc.

[Jalle19]

I'll try and report back, thanks for the tips!

[Jalle19]

@komazarari this is what I get when running the task explicitly:

$ cap localhost ops:clone --trace
** Invoke localhost (first_time)
** Execute localhost
** Invoke load:defaults (first_time)
** Execute load:defaults
** Invoke ops:clone (first_time)
** Execute ops:clone

[Jalle19]

It seems to only fail when using within "/hardcoded/path". If I use e.g. within release_path it works fine.

[Jalle19]

"Fixed" it by changing the whole task to:

desc "Clone ops repository"
task :clone do
  on roles(:all) do
	  if !File.directory?(fetch(:ops_path))
		execute :"ssh-keyscan", "bitbucket.org > ~/.ssh/known_hosts"
		execute :git, "clone ", fetch(:ops_repo_url), fetch(:ops_path)
	  end
  end
end

Now since it doesn't use within it "just works"

[Jalle19]

Just noticed that within works perfectly in another repository that uses the exact same code. Losing my mind with this.