Passing parameters to Capistrano

Question

I\'m looking into the possibility of using Capistrano as a generic deploy solution. By \"generic\", I mean not-rails. I\'m not happy with the quality of the documentation I\'m f

Answer 1

I'd suggest to use ENV variables.

Somethings like this (command):

$ GIT_REPO="johndoe@gitsrv.domain:app" GIT_BRANCH="r2s1" cap testing

Cap config:

#deploy.rb:
task :testing, :roles => :app do
  puts ENV['GIT_REPO']
  puts ENV['GIT_BRANCH']
end

And take a look at the https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano/wiki/2.x-Multistage-Extension, may be this approach will be useful for you as well.