# SwitchTower bugs: shared\_dir, before\_setup? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [December 7, 2005, 5:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/switchtower-bugs-shared-dir-before-setup/49640 "2005-12-07T05:29:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![joseph.moore](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/eb9ed0/32.png) [@joseph.moore](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joseph.moore)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 5:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/switchtower-bugs-shared-dir-before-setup/49640/1 "2005-12-07T05:29:44Z")
I installed SwitchTower yesterday and had a couple of problems. I’m not sure if they are known bugs, but if not, FYI; of course it’s possible that I missed something. 1 - SwitchTower did not create the “shared” directory by default as stated in the documentation. More importantly, the shared/log directory was not created automatically, which is problematic since SwitchTower created symbolic links to this directory. Setting the shared\_dir variable explicitly in the deploy.rb file did not fix this. As a result the application would not start until we manually created the ourapp/shared/log directory. 2 - According to the documentation, we have many after\_ and before\_ tasks. Thus we attempted to work around the non-creation of the shared\_dir by implementing after\_setup in config/deploy.rb. No dice â?? it was never executed; maybe we needed to explicitly call it somehow, be we haven’t figured it out yet (please let me know if you know how). We ended up implementing after\_update\_code instead. – Joe ---
**Author:** ![joseph.moore](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/eb9ed0/32.png) [@joseph.moore](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joseph.moore)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 4:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/switchtower-bugs-shared-dir-before-setup/49640/2 "2005-12-07T16:22:19Z")
On Dec 6, 2005, at 9:27 PM, Joseph M. wrote: > I installed SwitchTower yesterday and had a couple of problems. I’m > not sure if they are known bugs, but if not, FYI; of course it’s > possible that I missed something. Did you explicitly run the ‘setup’ task? If so, were there any errors? - Jamis ---
**Author:** ![joseph.moore](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/eb9ed0/32.png) [@joseph.moore](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joseph.moore)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 10:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/switchtower-bugs-shared-dir-before-setup/49640/3 "2005-12-07T22:13:54Z")
Jamis – We tried, but maybe we’re not running it correctly: * * * ## $ cd blah/project $ rake setup (in /home/blah/project/) rake aborted! Don’t know how to build task ‘setup’ – Joe ---
**Author:** ![joseph.moore](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/eb9ed0/32.png) [@joseph.moore](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joseph.moore)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 5:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/switchtower-bugs-shared-dir-before-setup/49640/4 "2005-12-07T17:39:49Z")
On 12/6/05, Joseph M. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Setting the shared\_dir variable explicitly in the deploy.rb file did > not fix this. As a result the application would not start until we > manually created the ourapp/shared/log directory. This might not be related, but it’s something to watch out for: shared\_dir is different than shared\_path. shared\_dir is the name of the shared directory (such as “shared”), while shared\_path is the full path for that directory (such as “/ourapp/shared”). I was bitten by that, but I’ve found SwitchTower to be good about reporting errors during tasks as Jamis mentioned. ---
**Author:** ![joseph.moore](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/eb9ed0/32.png) [@joseph.moore](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joseph.moore)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 10:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/switchtower-bugs-shared-dir-before-setup/49640/5 "2005-12-07T22:22:26Z")
There is no default rake task for setup. You need to run: switchtower -r config/deploy -a setup Joshua Sierles ---
**Author:** ![joseph.moore](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/eb9ed0/32.png) [@joseph.moore](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joseph.moore)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2005, 12:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/switchtower-bugs-shared-dir-before-setup/49640/6 "2005-12-08T00:46:25Z")
On Dec 7, 2005, at 2:10 PM, Joseph M. wrote: > * * * There’s no rake task for the setup. You can access it using the ‘remote\_exec’ task: rake remote\_exec ACTION=setup Only a few of the ST tasks have corresponding rake tasks (deploy, rollback). - Jamis