Symfony 2.3: can't persuade Capifony to install vendors with Composer

I've just completed an upgrade from Symfony2 2.0 to 2.3.4. This is now working on my local dev server and I'm looking to deploy it with Capifony.

A big change with Symfony is away from /bin/vendor toward Composer for managing dependencies.

I've updated Capistrano so that 'cap -V' gives 'Capistrano v2.15.5'

and Capifony so that 'capifony -v' gives 'capifony v2.4.0'

The problem is that

cap deploy

never attempts to run anything to do with Composer. It insists on trying to use /bin/vendor:

* 2013-09-29 23:16:58 executing `symfony:vendors:reinstall'
* executing "cd /vhosts/domains/mysite.com/public/releases/20130929221446 && php bin/vendors install --reinstall"

My 'deploy.rb' has:

set :use_composer, true

Here's my full deploy.rb

set :application, "mysite"
set :domain,      "#{application}.com"
set :deploy_to,   "/vhosts/domains/#{domain}/public"
set :app_path,    "app"

#ssh stuff 
ssh_options[:port] = 12345
ssh_options[:username] = "myuser" 
ssh_options[:forward_agent] = true

set :scm, :git
set :branch,      "master"
set :deploy_via,  :rsync_with_remote_cache
#set :deploy_via, :remote_cache

set :user, "admin" # SSH login user
set :port, 12345 # For Capistrano
#set :use_sudo, true # admin is sufficiently privileged

# Set logging to max for debugging
#logger.level = Logger::MAX_LEVEL

# Advised to add this to fix an error message
default_run_options[:pty] = true

set :repository, "/vhosts/domains/mysite.com/public/current" # Local means Vagrant

set :model_manager, "doctrine"
# Or: `propel`

# Server roles
role :web,        domain                         # Web server
#role :app,        domain                         # App server (could be different)
#role :db,         domain, :primary => true       # DB server (primary means primary DB)

set :keep_releases,  12

# Added 29Sep13 as advised by current capifony docs
set :shared_files,      ["app/config/parameters.yml"]

# directories that will be shared between all releases
set :shared_children,     [app_path + "/logs", "customer_uploads", "vendor"]

set :use_composer, true
set :update_vendors, true

# Share /vendor between deployments
#set :copy_vendors, true
# Run post-scripts from composer install
#set :composer_options,  "--no-dev --verbose --prefer-dist --optimize-autoloader"

# Below doesn't work with composer, is deprecated as only worked for bin/vendors
#set :vendors_mode, "reinstall" 

# Assets install (to web directory as files rather than symlinks). Don't uncomment, set to 'false'.
set :assets_install, false

# Regenerate Assetic assets (JS, CSS). Don't uncomment, set to 'false'.
set :dump_assetic_assets, false

# Whether to run cache warmup. Don't uncomment, set to 'false'.
set :cache_warmup, true

# Note this can fail (e.g. to find and download a necessary Git repo) and deployment still proceeds.

# Change ACL on the app/logs and app/cache directories
# Works without this and when enabled gives error if sudo set to false above.
after 'deploy', 'deploy:update_acl'

# Adam added to try and enforce keep_releases automatically
after "deploy", "deploy:cleanup"

# Custom task to set the ACL on the app/logs and app/cache directories
namespace :deploy do

  task :update_acl, :roles => :app do
    shared_dirs = [
      app_path + "/logs",
      app_path + "/cache"
    ]

    # add group write permissions
    #run "chmod -R g+w #{shared_dirs.join(' ')}"
    # Allow directories to be writable by webserver and this user
    run "cd #{latest_release} && setfacl -R -m u:www-data:rwx -m u:#{user}:rwx #{shared_dirs.join(' ')}"
    run "cd #{latest_release} && setfacl -dR -m u:www-data:rwx -m u:#{user}:rwx #{shared_dirs.join(' ')}"
  end

end

Edit1 30Sep13 14:04 UTC in response to comment

The contents of the Capfile that resides in my project root is

load 'deploy' if respond_to?(:namespace) # cap2 differentiator
Dir['vendor/bundles/*/*/recipes/*.rb'].each { |bundle| load(bundle) }
load Gem.find_files('symfony2.rb').last.to_s
load 'app/config/deploy'

Also, why do other questions e.g. below show prettier printing when using Capifony. The output on mine doesn't look at all like this: no ticks, much messier

Capifony failed reinstalling vendors with Symfony2.1

It's as if either Capistrano or Capifony isn't up-to-date and therefore doesn't recognise the instruction to use Composer - but why would that be?

Thanks in advance,

Solution

Capifony has support for Symfony v1 (that uses bin/vendors) and Symfony v2 - composer based.

While it should recognise that you are using a Composer-based system, care of the set :use_composer, true line, I've found it's better to explicitly tell it, care of a line in Capfile, in the project root.

require 'capifony_symfony2'

The https://github.com/ruudk/capifony-tools can also be useful, it's got a vendors_speedup.rb task for Capistrano, which copies the entire vendor directory, before the composer install/update action.