How to handle one-off deployment tasks with capistrano?

Question

I am currently trying to automate the deployment process of our rails app as much as possible, so that a clean build on the CI server can trigger an automated deployment on a test server.

But I have run into a bit of a snag with the following scenario: I have added the friendly_id gem to the application. There's a migration that creates all the necessary tables. But to fill these tables, I need to call a rake task.

Now, this rake tasks only has to be called once, so adding it to the deployment script would be overkill.

Ideally, I am looking for something like migrations, but instead of the database, it should keep track of scripts that need to be called during a deployment. Does such a beast already exist?

Answer 1

Looks like after_party gem does exactly what you want.