How do I run a rake task from Capistrano?

Question

I already have a deploy.rb that can deploy my app on my production server.

My app contains a custom rake task (a .rake file in the lib/tasks directory).

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Answer 1

run("cd #{deploy_to}/current && /usr/bin/env rake `` RAILS_ENV=production")

Found it with Google -- http://ananelson.com/said/on/2007/12/30/remote-rake-tasks-with-capistrano/

The RAILS_ENV=production was a gotcha -- I didn't think of it at first and couldn't figure out why the task wasn't doing anything.