Error appears while assets are copied

[SmyzerT]

this https://github.com/capistrano-plugins/capistrano-faster-assets/blob/master/lib/capistrano/tasks/faster_assets.rake#L45 triggers error, because capistrano/rails creates symlink to public/assets and the task creates endless loop copy

[rhomeister]

I've never seen this problem before. Do you have an idea why this is happening in your specific case?

[SmyzerT]

I think in my case it happens because capistrano/rails creates a symlink release/timestamp/public/assets -> shared/public/assets, so previous release and current release refers to the same assets folder. I think that we don't need to execute a line which invoke assets copying, because we have symlink to the right assets and we just need to invoke copying if we don't have any symlink (but we have the symlink because this gem depends to capistrano/rails which creates the symlink)

off topic note

I think it would be better to add capistrano/rails as dependency to your gem via http://guides.rubygems.org/specification-reference/#add_runtime_dependency and create some rake task like rake faster-assets install which will automatically add required line into the Capfile

[rhomeister]

Strangely enough, I have never experienced this problem, and I'm also using
capistrano-rails. So I'm trying to figure out what is going wrong in your
specific case.

On 28 October 2015 at 09:15, SmyzerT [email protected] wrote:

I think in my case it happens because capistrano/rails creates a symlink
release/timestamp/public/assets -> shared/public/assets, so previous
release and current release refers to the same assets folder. I think that
we don't need to execute a line which invoke assets copying, because we
have symlink to the right assets and we just need to invoke copying if we
don't have any symlink (but we have the symlink because this gem depends to
capistrano/rails which creates the symlink)
off topic note

I think it would be better to add capistrano/rails as dependency to your
gem via
http://guides.rubygems.org/specification-reference/#add_runtime_dependency
and create some rake task like rake faster-assets install which will
automatically add required line into the Capfile

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[elik-ru]

I confirm the same problem

Problem line is here:

execute(:cp, '-r', latest_release_path.join('public', fetch(:assets_prefix)), release_path.join('public', fetch(:assets_prefix)))

because both paths are symlinks to shared/public/assets