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Deploying WordPress with Capistrano symlink issue fix

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Fix from “Tutorial: Deploying WordPress with Capistrano” by Konstantin Kovshenin

I was using the three blog posts by Konstantin Kovshenin about using Capistrano with WordPress. The blog post tutorials were written in 2011.

I kept having issues with the symlink code used in the post. The code looks like this:

namespace :myproject do
    task :symlink, :roles => :app do
        run "ln -nfs #{shared_path}/uploads #{release_path}/application/wp-content/uploads"
    end
end

after "deploy:symlink", "myproject:symlink"

Problem: Tasks not being executed on cap deploy

Not having a Ruby background, I couldn’t easily debug the situation. To keep it short, every time I cap deploy the commands in the :myproject would not execute.

I believe the newest Capistrano no longer uses the "deploy:symlink" as a valid trigger. Therefore, the snippet originally provided was not working.

Solution: Change trigger

It’s not a fancy outcome, but I changed the line:

after "deploy:symlink", "myproject:symlink"

to

after "deploy", "myproject:symlink"

Now my symlink is run correctly and I am able to see my tasks run when I cap deploy.

This is a fix to issues I found in Tutorial: Deploying WordPress with Capistrano](http://theme.fm/2011/08/tutorial-deploying-wordpress-with-capistrano-2082/)