Reference task

Description

task(string $name, [array $options,] callback $function)

Defines a new task.

Parameters

• name

• options

• function

Examples

host('192.168.0.11',  "dev");
host('192.168.0.12',  "dev");
host('192.168.0.13',  "dev");

/**
 * Deploy development application from git repository.
 */
desc('Deploy development applications.');
task('deploy',array('roles' => 'dev'), function($host, $args){

  run('cd /var/applications/myapp; git pull;', array('user' => 'root'));

});

You can execute this task as the following command

$ altax deploy

Example for the callback function arguments (host, args)

task('deploy', function($host, $args){

  if (count($args) < 1) {
    echo "\n";
    echo "You must pass 1 argument that is stage name for deployment [dev or prod].\n";
    echo "\n";
    return;
  }

  if ($args[0] == 'dev') {

    // deploy code for development stage  

  } else if ($args[0] == 'prod') {

    // deploy code for production stage

  } else {

    echo "\n";
    echo "Unknown stage name.\n";
    echo "\n";
    return;
  }
});

You can execute this task as the following command

$ altax deploy dev