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

I just redirect STDERR and STDOUT to /dev/null, so your

run "my_command"

becomes

run "my_command > /dev/null 2> /dev/null"

this works for standard unix tools pretty well, where, say, cp or ln could fail, but you don't want to halt deployment on such a failure.