rvm install via capistrano is flooding output

Question

I'm running a shell script via capistrano to install rvm and ruby. When running

rvm install ruby-${RUBY_VERSION} 2>&1 > ../log/ruby_install.log

in my script, all output seems to be going to the log file, except for the scrollbar output. that output is being sent back to capistrano and it's flooding the output, and looks horrible.

Is there any way I can hide the progress during the command?

I tried running

alias curl="curl --silent"

before the command, but it doesn't work at all, so I guess the install is happening via some other means.

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 14 '13 at 14:49

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Try:

gem install rvm-capistrano -v ">=1.3.0.rc11"

It contains code to make curl silent

answered Mar 14 '13 at 14:49

mpapis

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Are you referring to this: https://github.com/wayneeseguin/rvm-capistrano/blob/master/lib/rvm/capistrano.rb#L124 – josef.van.niekerk Mar 14 '13 at 14:56
I'm not using rvm-capistrano, but this snippet definitely helps. – josef.van.niekerk Mar 15 '13 at 08:30
you should try rvm-capistrano - I push there a lot of goodies like mixing RVM and non RVM servers – mpapis Mar 15 '13 at 16:22
@mpapis I'm using rvm-capistrano 1.5.1 and I'm still getting the progress indicator flooding the capistrano output – Mark Robinson May 22 '14 at 10:30

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 15 '13 at 12:00

The answer from @mpapis lead me to the following solution:

# Rename .curlrc if present
if [[ -f $HOME/.curlrc ]]; then
    echo "Backing up .curlrc"
    mv $HOME/.curlrc $HOME/.curlrc~
fi

# Create a temporary .curlrc configuration file, this prevents curl from flooding the Capistrano output
{
    echo "insecure"
    echo "silent" # Hide verbose output, it floods the capistrano output
    echo "show-error"
} > $HOME/.curlrc

I added the above snippet to my bash script, and at the end, I just restored .curlrc to it's previous state:

rm $HOME/.curlrc
if [[ -f $HOME/.curlrc~ ]]; then
    mv $HOME/.curlrc~ $HOME/.curlrc
fi

This is modified from rvm-capistrano, check it out on the original Github Repository.

rvm install via capistrano is flooding output

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