update crontab later in capistrano lifecycle

[niklas]

with capistrano 2.13.5, before 'finalize_update' runs before bundler, leading to "command not found: whenever"

[javan]

Just be sure to require Whenever after Bundler and it should work fine.

[schorsch]

+1 had the same prob with gems not beeing checked out. worked around it by manually including recipies and than using my hooks:

# manual to influence later execution time
#require 'whenever/capistrano'
require 'whenever/capistrano/recipes'

after "deploy:finalize_update",  "whenever:update_crontab"
after "deploy:rollback", "whenever:update_crontab" 

[andyh]

@schorsch thanks for that info. I had the same problem with an app that's using Brightbox's gem for deploying to brightbox servers - it does it's bundle tasks as an after callback to deploy:finalize_update so after adding whenever the deployments weren't successful because it was trying to run the whenever tasks before installing the gem.

@javan Is it possible to make whenever more flexible in when the capistrano callbacks are run? Or are you happy that this workaround is what should be used in cases like this?

[javan]

@schorsch approach is an example of the intended flexibility. It's why the recipes are in a separate file.

If you're using the latest version of Bundler and you require Whenever after Bundler, no changes are needed.

[andyh]

@javan cool. I just wanted to check since it wasn't documented specifically anywhere. In my case with the brightbox gem even though we are using the latest version of bundler, it doesn't work since they're using their own mechanism for running bundle install, etc. I will add @schorsch's workaround to the troubleshotting page on the wiki so that hopefully you won't get too hassled by repeat issues :)

[brucepom]

@javan thanks for the tip about updating bundler. If anyone else runs into this.
$ gem update bundler
fixed it for me.