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Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:31:17 +0200
From: "Rafael G." <r...@aspgems.com>
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Gary Richardson wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Two part question that I haven't been able to answer:
>
> 1) can I get the current host a task is executing on? I've read some 
> stuff about $CAPISTRANO:HOST$, but it doesn't seem to work for me
I tested this task and works for me:

    task :host_name do
        run "host $CAPISTRANO:HOST$"
    end

What OS are you using? Could you paste your deploy.rb in 
someplace(gist.github, pastie,...)?

> 2) if I have an array of values (let's say an array that maps ec2 host 
> names to ec2 instance id's), can I use this same method to look up 
> something from that array?
Capistrano uses ruby If you can do it with ruby you can do the same in a 
capistrano task.

-- 
Rafa