# Capistrano issues

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/capistrano-issues/113695>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [September 4, 2007, 2:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/capistrano-issues/113695 "2007-09-04T02:18:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![chrisolsen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@chrisolsen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chrisolsen)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2007, 2:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/capistrano-issues/113695/1 "2007-09-04T02:18:30Z")

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I was following the directions here ([http://capify.org/getting-started/](http://capify.org/getting-started/)  
rails) and I am getting the error below.

trunk 558 $ capify .  
[add] writing `./Capfile' [skip] `./config/deploy.rb’ already exists  
[done] capified!  
trunk 559 $ ls  
Capfile app doc script  
Charts.tmproj components lib test  
README config log tmp  
Rakefile db public vendor  
trunk 560 $ cap -T  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:246:in `activate': can't activate capistrano (= 1.4.1), already activated capistrano-2.0.0] (Gem::Exception) from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:264:in `activate’  
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:263:in  
`each' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:263:in `activate’  
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/  
custom\_require.rb:31:in `require' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/capistrano-2.0.0/lib/ capistrano/configuration/loading.rb:85:in `require’  
from ./config/deploy.rb:1:in `load' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/capistrano-2.0.0/lib/ capistrano/configuration/loading.rb:97:in `load\_from\_file’  
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/capistrano-2.0.0/lib/  
capistrano/configuration/loading.rb:66:in `load' ... 13 levels... from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/capistrano-2.0.0/lib/ capistrano/cli/execute.rb:14:in `execute’  
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/capistrano-2.0.0/bin/  
cap:4  
from /usr/local/bin/cap:16:in `load’  
from /usr/local/bin/cap:16

Does anyone know the reason for this? Thanks

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**Author:** ![chrisolsen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@chrisolsen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/chrisolsen)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2007, 4:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/capistrano-issues/113695/2 "2007-09-04T16:23:37Z")

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On Sep 4, 1:17 am, chris [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> README config log tmp  
> `activate' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/capistrano-2.0.0/lib/ capistrano/cli/execute.rb:14:in `execute’  
> from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/capistrano-2.0.0/bin/  
> cap:4  
> from /usr/local/bin/cap:16:in `load’  
> from /usr/local/bin/cap:16
> 
> Does anyone know the reason for this? Thanks

It looks a little like that you’re executing the wrong cap. (I suspect  
that you’re running capistrano 1.4’s executable, rather than  
capistrano 2’s). I would investigate and see whether you can determine  
which version of capistrano is being invoked when you use the cap  
command. The “which” command is useful for this on \*nix machines.

If this is the problem, you could update the symlink to point to the  
cap2 executable, add the path to the cap2 executable as a higher entry  
on your path environment variable, or uninstall cap1.4.

Hope this helps some.

Cheers,  
Louis.