Rakefile not getting deployed with capistrano

Question

I am getting this error when deploying with capistrano:

executing "cd /opt/my_app/dev/releases/20100103021722; rake RAILS_ENV=staging  db:migrate"
    servers: ["96.30.33.84"]
    [96.30.33.84] executing command
 ** [out :: 96.30.33.84] rake aborted!
 ** [out :: 96.30.33.84] 
 ** [out :: 96.30.33.84] No Rakefile found (looking for: rakefile, Rakefile, rakefile.rb, Rakefile.rb)
 ** [out :: 96.30.33.84] 
 ** [out :: 96.30.33.84] /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2377:in `raw_load_rakefile'
 ** [out :: 96.30.33.84] 
 ** [out :: 96.30.33.84] (See full trace by running task with --trace)
 ** [out :: 96.30.33.84] 

It randomly just started occurring. I found out the problem was that my new deploys are missing my rake file...however I am deploying from my staging branch and I can confirm that my staging branch has the Rakefile. Somehow it's not getting deployed. Does anyone know how to troubleshoot this?

Answer 1

I assume that you are using some sort of vcs (svn/git/etc.), have the files been ignored by the repo, ie. they aren't getting deployed with the app, thus not showing up on staging?