config file problem: local_variables not being loaded on ruby 1.9.x

[victorhg]

Hello,
I'm using ruby 1.9.1-p376 and have tried this with 1.9.2

The project is configured fine, but when I execute

victorhg$ inploy setup
/Users/victorhg/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.1-p376/gems/inploy-1.6.0/lib/inploy/dsl.rb:48:in `remote_run': undefined method `each' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)
from /Users/victorhg/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.1-p376/gems/inploy-1.6.0/lib/inploy/deploy.rb:48:in `remote_setup'
from /Users/victorhg/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.1-p376/gems/inploy-1.6.0/lib/inploy/cli.rb:9:in `execute'
from /Users/victorhg/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.1-p376/gems/inploy-1.6.0/bin/inploy:7:in `<top (required)>'
from /Users/victorhg/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.1-p376/bin/inploy:19:in `load'
from /Users/victorhg/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.1-p376/bin/inploy:19:in `<main>'

Here's my config/deploy.rb file:

template = :rails3
application = "myProject"
repository = '[email protected]:user/project.git'
hosts = ['server']

path = '/var/www/'
user = 'rails'

Explaining the problem:

Well, because of the change on how eval method handles local variables, we cannot have something like this on ruby 1.9:

eval "variable = 1"
print variable

The way inploy handles the configuration parameters is not working (at least for me). Here is the problem in the code:

inploy/deploy.rb:27

def configure
    if file = configuration_file
      deploy = self
      eval file.read
      local_variables.each do |variable
        send "#{variable}=", eval(variable) rescue nil
      end
    end
  end

When executing eval file.read the variables are not created as local variables, but only as local variables inside the eval scope. To solve this, I had to change the config/deploy file to created instance variables:

@template = :rails3
@application = "myProject"
@repository = '[email protected]:user/project.git'
@hosts = ['server']

@path = '/var/www/'
@user = 'rails'

Maybe there's a better way to make it work... or I would be really glad to hear that it's just some stupid mistake I did....

thank you...

[dcrec1]

Hi Victor, you're right.

I'm gonna try to resolve this. Another syntax you can use is the old one:

deploy.user = 'rails'
...

Thanks for the alert.

[victorhg]

One possibility is to pre-define the variables.

Although this doesn't work:

eval "variable = 1"
print variable


If you define the variables before, it will work:

variable = 10
eval "variable = 55"
print variable
==> 55


Cheers..

[dcrec1]

I thought to do this but the problem is that every time an attribute is declared, the person would have to remember to declare it also as a local variable in the configure method.

I applied a hack and it should be working now. Anyway, please send me a patch if you got a better implementation.