require in capistrano deploy.rb cannot find file

Question

I have a rails 3.0.5 app and I\'m setting up capistrano to use a recipe.

in my config directory I have a file named \"database_capistrano.rb\" and in my deploy.rb, also

Answer 1

Ok, I manage to find out how this should be done.

Just copied the file to a new sub-directory "deploy", for organization only, and at the beginning of my deploy.rb, added:

$LOAD_PATH.unshift File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'deploy')

Then, in deploy.rb, just used:

require 'database_capistrano'

Answer 2

For future visitors, I got better results with the answer found in Capistrano: deploy.rb file refactoring

i.e instead of require, use load. As long as that file is a gem in the bundle or a file that requires other gems that are in bundle, this will work.

To be frank, I didn't try the accepted answer, half because it looked a little workaround-ish, and half because I didnt fully understand how to adapt it for my situation