Capistrano & Bash: ignore command exit status

Question

I\'m using Capistrano run a remote task. My task looks like this:

task :my_task do
  run \"my_command\"
end

My problem is that if my_comm

Answer 1

The +grep+ command exits non-zero based on what it finds. In the use case where you care about the output but don't mind if it's empty, you'll discard the exit state silently:

run %Q{bash -c 'grep #{escaped_grep_command_args} ; true' }

Normally, I think the first solution is just fine -- I'd make it document itself tho:

cmd = "my_command with_args escaped_correctly"
run %Q{bash -c '#{cmd} || echo "Failed: [#{cmd}] -- ignoring."'}