sync down the content of a mysql database used by a ruby on rails application using mina.

sync-mysql-mina.rb

RYAML = <<-BASH
function ryaml {
  ruby -ryaml -e 'puts ARGV[1..-1].inject(YAML.load(File.read(ARGV[0]))) {|acc, key| acc[key] }' "$@"
};
BASH
namespace :sync do
  task :db do
    isolate do
      invoke :environment

      queue RYAML
      queue "USERNAME=$(ryaml #{deploy_to}/shared/config/database.yml #{rails_env} username)"
      queue "PASSWORD=$(ryaml #{deploy_to}/shared/config/database.yml #{rails_env} password)"
      queue "DATABASE=$(ryaml #{deploy_to}/shared/config/database.yml #{rails_env} database)"
      queue "mysqldump $DATABASE --user=$USERNAME --password=$PASSWORD > #{deploy_to}/dump.sql"
      queue "gzip -f #{deploy_to}/dump.sql"

      mina_cleanup!
    end

    %x[scp #{user}@#{domain}:#{deploy_to}/dump.sql.gz .]
    %x[gunzip -f dump.sql.gz]
    %x[#{RYAML} mysql --verbose --user=$(ryaml config/database.yml development username) --password=$(ryaml config/database.yml development password) $(ryaml config/database.yml development database) < dump.sql]
    %x[rm dump.sql]
  end
end

thanks! I only had to remove the ; from the RYAML block in order to make it work