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

Here's what I put in my deploy.rb to simplify running rake tasks. It's a simple wrapper around capistrano's run() method.

def rake(cmd, options={}, &block)
  command = "cd #{current_release} && /usr/bin/env bundle exec rake #{cmd} RAILS_ENV=#{rails_env}"
  run(command, options, &block)
end

Then I just run any rake task like so:

rake 'app:compile:jammit'