file_exist? for capistrano

I just spend half an our figuring out how to check if a file exists on the remote machine,
File.exist? wont do the trick…

def file_exist?(path)
  run "ls #{path}"
  true
rescue Exception => e
  false
end

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    • Ok, found it, so for other newbies: add the method in lib/capistrano/filecheck.rb and in Capfile: Dir.glob(‘lib/capistrano/*.rb’).each { |r| import r }, and if it’s Cap v3 change run to execute. Cheers!

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