MSDeploy in Exec block deploys but rake task fails

[pavanmishra]

We are trying to auto deploy a MVC .net project packaged as a zip file. One of the files produced by build script is projectname.deploy.cmd. Using this script directly from the commandline works fine and including the same in exec block, though it deploys, rake reports as fatal error. This is not usable in CI.

Here are the outputs from rake as well as command script

Command Line Output

>Release\web.deploy.cmd /y /p:YadaYada
Info: Using ID '21173728-6296-4c7d-bc3e-21d70dc6923d' for connections to the remote server.
Info: Updating setAcl (Default Web Site/DeltaX.web_deploy).
Info: Updating setAcl (Default Web Site/DeltaX.web_deploy).
Info: Using ID '5783567d-02fe-4db0-bcb9-00ef2310f4fc' for connections to the remote server.
Info: Updating setAcl (Default Web Site/DeltaX.web_deploy).
Info: Updating setAcl (Default Web Site/DeltaX.web_deploy).
Total changes: 4 (0 added, 0 deleted, 4 updated, 0 parameters changed, 0 bytes copied)

Whereas exec block below

desc 'Deploy using Web Deploy'
exec :deploy do |cmd|
    `#{"Release\\web.deploy.cmd /y /p:YadaYada"}`   
#   cmd.command = "Release\web.deploy.cmd /y /p:YadaYada"
end

when invoked via rake produces the following

>rake deploy --trace
Info: Using ID '1ddc0f92-09fa-4a48-9587-fa72d15ae943' for connections to the remote server.
Info: Updating setAcl (Default Web Site/DeltaX.web_deploy).
Info: Updating setAcl (Default Web Site/DeltaX.web_deploy).
Info: Using ID 'e7d33b17-c3bc-4fb0-b911-13add6d10534' for connections to the remote server.
Info: Updating setAcl (Default Web Site/DeltaX.web_deploy).
Info: Updating setAcl (Default Web Site/DeltaX.web_deploy).
Total changes: 4 (0 added, 0 deleted, 4 updated, 0 parameters changed, 0 bytes copied)
F, [2012-05-30T19:50:15.123046 #4364] FATAL -- : Exec Failed. See Build Log For Detail
rake aborted!
Exec Failed. See Build Log For Detail

Tasks: TOP => deploy

[AnthonyMastrean]

What's the exit code? That'll be %errorlevel% in the command window and $lastExitCode in PowerShell.

[AnthonyMastrean]

It also looks like someone is doing an msdeploy task, pull #206. You might pull that fork and try your command (maybe they've done something with the actual command line that will magically fix your problem).

[pavanmishra]

Directly running the commandline script returns an error code of 0, while after running the rake task error level is 1, which is reasonable since rake failed.

Investigating further adds more to the confusion. According to one of the discussions http://forums.iis.net/p/1148039/1863894.aspx#1863894 msdeploy always returns 0. In that case how is rake raising an error.

I did look at #206 but seems like this case was not considered. https://github.com/agross/rake-me/blob/master/msdeploy.rb#L16 seems to address that. Will be employing something of that sort in my rake task for now and check if that works.

[AnthonyMastrean]

That looks like an interesting approach. If you feel strongly, comment pull request #206 because it looks like it's coming in.