Capistrano 3: Relative symlink instead of absolute for current, linked_dirs and linked_files - deployment

Question

I need to have relative symlink​ instead of absolute symlink​ when deploying.
I think the tree tasks than need to be overwritten are.
Rake::Task["deploy:symlink:linked_dirs"]
Rake::Task["deploy:symlink:linked_files"]
Rake::Task["deploy:symlink:release"] ​ ​
What I would like is some DSL I can drop in my deploy.rb so when I'm deploying created links are all relative.

Answer 1

You can juste use this in your deploy.rb to overwrite the default behaviour
## Use relative path instead of absolute
Rake::Task["deploy:symlink:linked_dirs"].clear
Rake::Task["deploy:symlink:linked_files"].clear
Rake::Task["deploy:symlink:release"].clear
namespace :deploy do
namespace :symlink do
desc 'Symlink release to current'
task :release do
on release_roles :all do
tmp_current_path = release_path.parent.join(current_path.basename)
execute :ln, '-s', release_path.relative_path_from(current_path.dirname), tmp_current_path
execute :mv, tmp_current_path, current_path.parent
end
end
desc 'Symlink files and directories from shared to release'
task :shared do
invoke 'deploy:symlink:linked_files'
invoke 'deploy:symlink:linked_dirs'
end
desc 'Symlink linked directories'
task :linked_dirs do
next unless any? :linked_dirs
on release_roles :all do
execute :mkdir, '-p', linked_dir_parents(release_path)
fetch(:linked_dirs).each do |dir|
target = release_path.join(dir)
source = shared_path.join(dir)
unless test "[ -L #{target} ]"
if test "[ -d #{target} ]"
execute :rm, '-rf', target
end
execute :ln, '-s', source.relative_path_from(target.dirname), target
end
end
end
end
desc 'Symlink linked files'
task :linked_files do
next unless any? :linked_files
on release_roles :all do
execute :mkdir, '-p', linked_file_dirs(release_path)
fetch(:linked_files).each do |file|
target = release_path.join(file)
source = shared_path.join(file)
unless test "[ -L #{target} ]"
if test "[ -f #{target} ]"
execute :rm, target
end
execute :ln, '-s', source.relative_path_from(target.dirname), target
end
end
end
end
end
end