# Jamis, problem w/Capistrano

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/jamis-problem-w-capistrano/61754>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 26, 2006, 9:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/jamis-problem-w-capistrano/61754 "2006-05-26T21:54:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![sweetpete](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@sweetpete](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sweetpete)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 9:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/jamis-problem-w-capistrano/61754/1 "2006-05-26T21:54:57Z")

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Jamis,

I’ve spent hours trying to get Capistrano working, to no avail. I’m  
hosting over at [www.railsplayground.com](http://www.railsplayground.com), and here’s their instructions  
I’ve been following:

[http://tinyurl.com/hyo93](http://tinyurl.com/hyo93)

I can’t get past step 7. When I execute “rake remote:setup”, I get a  
rake aborted! message. When I do a “rake --tasks”, I get only a small  
subset of commands - the support guy at the host sent me a screen shot  
of his “rake --tasks”, and he’s got a LOT more commands than I do.

What am I doing wrong? Or are his instructions wrong?

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**Author:** ![sweetpete](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@sweetpete](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sweetpete)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 10:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/jamis-problem-w-capistrano/61754/2 "2006-05-26T22:11:29Z")

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Jamis,

Forgot to mention - my local box is WinXP, railsplayground server is  
Linux, fwiw…

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**Author:** ![sweetpete](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@sweetpete](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sweetpete)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 11:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/jamis-problem-w-capistrano/61754/3 "2006-05-26T23:52:24Z")

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“Peter J.” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote  
in message news:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid…

> Jamis,
> 
> Forgot to mention - my local box is WinXP, railsplayground server is  
> Linux, fwiw…

Peter

I’m having exactly the same problem, and I’m deploying from a windows  
box to  
linux too. See my earlier thread ‘Capistrano on windows (again)’ for  
specific details of my problem. I think the issue lies with the windows  
environment. We could be missing a required library

al

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**Author:** ![sweetpete](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@sweetpete](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sweetpete)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2006, 2:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/jamis-problem-w-capistrano/61754/4 "2006-05-31T14:53:54Z")

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Alan,

I finally resolved the problem. I simply created a new rails app,  
copied my existing app into the new app’s folders, and then followed the  
setup procedure for Capistrano. All is well now.

I _think_ the problem had to do with the file ‘Rakefile’ in the app’s  
root folder. Before I generated the new app, this file was pretty big -  
and I had never manually touched it. The new file is very short, 10  
lines to be exact.

Hope this helps…

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**Author:** ![sweetpete](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@sweetpete](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sweetpete)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2006, 2:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/jamis-problem-w-capistrano/61754/5 "2006-05-31T14:54:59Z")

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Alan,

Forgot to mention - when I copied my existing app to the new app folder,  
I didn’t copy the existing Rakefile - I left the new one intact that was  
just created.