Where is Capistrano 3's `deploy:cold` defined?

Question

Capistrano on the whole is a very useful tool, but the definitions are so modular and distributed it can be difficult (or near impossible) to find the definition of a task when needed, or easily piece together the order of events.

I had only vaguely worked with Capistrano before v3, and I recall there being a "cold deploy" task.

However, I can't seem to find it anywhere within the capistrano repository, nor within any of the plugins (capistrano/rvm, capistrano/bundler, capistrano/rails, etc...). A simple repository search for the term 'cold' yields nothing

Where is this task defined? Does it exist in Capistrano v3? And is there an easy way to visualize all the tasks, in order, that run when I execute a certain command (e.g. bundle exec cap production deploy would list all 10,000+ deploy tasks)

Thanks!

Answer 1

actually there's no such task in capistrano 3. You can see all task with command:

cap -T

for deploying i usually start with

cap production setup # Server setup tasks
cap production deploy:check # Check required files and directories exist

Answer 2

There is no such task like deploy:cold in capistrano 3 rather you can use the following command for the same thing

bundle exec cap production deploy setup

You can read the task definition in the lib files located in

lib/capistrano/tasks/deploy.rake