Local shell commands

[leizzer]

Is there a way to mix local shell commands and remote commands?

I take a quick look and it seems that the gem queue all the remote commands until the end, then mina execute the remote commands.

I have an small vps and I can't compile the assets there, I need to precomplile the assets in my local machine first. And it would be nice if I could mix local and remote commands in one task.

I can't even create a task like this:
task :deploy => :prepare_assets do ... end

All the commands will mixed up if I do something like that.

The only solution for me was to create 3 tasks: prepare_assets, deploy and deploy_assests

What do you recommend?

[rstacruz]

If that's what you're after, you should take a look at Capistrano or Vlad. The "queue everything and execute" is precisely why Mina was created, as other deploy tools don't do the same thing.

You can also simply compile all the assets first, tarball the entire assets/ directory, scp it, and catch it after deploying.

# Haven't tested, all hypothetical!
task :prepare_assets do
  set :asset_file, "assets.%s.tar.gz" % [Time.now.strftime("%Y%m%d%h%n%s")] # ?
  system "bundle exec rake assets:precompile RAILS_GROUPS=assets"
  system "tar -zxc assets -f /tmp/#{asset_file}"
  system "scp /tmp/#{asset_file} #{user}@#{domain}:/tmp/#{deploy_to}/tmp/#{asset_file}"
end

This may seem hackish as there's no Mina helper API to handle this case, but this isn't a popular use case so far, and Capistrano may be better suited for your purposes.

[leizzer]

Yes, I'm doing something like that right now.

Thanks for your answer.