# Including mulitple files **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [August 17, 2014, 9:32am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/including-mulitple-files/15971 "2014-08-17T09:32:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Akos\_Vandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Akos\_Vandra](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Akos_Vandra)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2014, 9:32am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/including-mulitple-files/15971/1 "2014-08-17T09:32:33Z")
Hello! I’m struggling with importing the functionality of deploy\_revision from chef to ansible. In case of ruby this means the following steps: - checkout git repo to /revisions/sha1 - run bundle install in there - create necessary custom configuration files - take any necessary custom steps to configure the installation - update symlink of /current to point to /revisions/sha1 Now what I’d like to do is to put steps 1,2,5 into a separate task file, and use it like this: - include: …/…/common/tasks/ruby-git-deploy.yml deploy\_dir: /opt/water/revisions deploy\_revision: master deploy\_repository: [git@github.com](mailto:git@github.com)/… tasks\_before\_symlink: - roles/water-meter/setup.yml - roles/common/rake\_db\_migrate.yml the tasks\_before\_symlink would point to the tasks files that would carry out steps 3,4, but I seem to be unable to include them: - include: ‘{{item}}’ with\_items: {{ tasks\_before\_symlink }} complains about deprecated code: ERROR: [DEPRECATED]: include + with\_items is a removed deprecated feature (in /Users/avandra/projects/freelancer/liveoaksys/water-playbook/roles/common/tasks/ruby-git-deploy.yml). Please update your playbooks. There is no realy pointer on what is the “new way” to do this, can you help me out? Regards, Akos Vandra ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan1)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2014, 1:05pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/including-mulitple-files/15971/2 "2014-08-17T13:05:03Z")
There are various approaches to this, but here’s an example role that does this: [https://github.com/f500/ansible-project\_deploy](https://github.com/f500/ansible-project_deploy) We’re talking about making a helper module in Ansible 1.8 timeframe that would make a lot of this easier without needing a custom role. While you cannot use “include” together with a “with\_items”, you can pass a list to a role, and then loop inside the role on each task. - { role: name: ‘foo’, stuff: a\_list } # in tasks file: - shell: echo parameter is {{ item }} with\_items: a\_list Etc ---
**Author:** ![Kim\_Ausloos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8baadc/32.png) [@Kim\_Ausloos](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kim_Ausloos)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2014, 11:44am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/including-mulitple-files/15971/3 "2014-08-18T11:44:15Z")
Hi Michael, Is there a github issue for the module proposal you are talking about? I have multiple use cases for includes with\_fileglob ( for example [https://gist.github.com/anonymous/1691f3ab625175011449](https://gist.github.com/anonymous/1691f3ab625175011449) ) and the current proposal feel kind of hackish. It could, of course, be me because I’m not using ansible professionally… Thanks! Kim ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan1)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2014, 12:26pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/including-mulitple-files/15971/4 "2014-08-18T12:26:39Z")
There’s not a github issue. Generally we don’t want to see feature request tickets (GitHub ticket organization is a giant pain – though we’ll leave them open when someone has a especially good idea), so it’s mostly a matter of getting the work done. We’ve got a note to look at this in 1.8 timeframe. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan1)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2014, 12:27pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/including-mulitple-files/15971/5 "2014-08-18T12:27:18Z")
“and the current proposal feel kind of hackish” A matter of opinion, clearly, which I don’t think is fair to those discussing it unless you can present a better proposal. In any event, group discussion should happen on ansible-devel, not on GitHub. ---
**Author:** ![Akos\_Vandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Akos\_Vandra](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Akos_Vandra)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2014, 12:42pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/including-mulitple-files/15971/6 "2014-08-18T12:42:14Z")
I have solved my issue by providing a variable to the deploy task, which will in turn include that. But it does feel somewhat like writing try-catch-finally behaviour code in C, having to split all the before, between and after stuff into separate files (functions). includes: git-deploy.yml vars:   before\_migrate\_tasks: my-hook.yml @@@ git-deploy.yml - prepare\_tasks - include: {{ before\_migrate\_tasks }} - migrate\_tasks ---
**Author:** ![Kim\_Ausloos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8baadc/32.png) [@Kim\_Ausloos](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kim_Ausloos)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2014, 12:53pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/including-mulitple-files/15971/7 "2014-08-18T12:53:54Z")
Hi Michael, I was talking about the looping of each task in a role, not about any new proposal or old functionality, excuse me for any misunderstanding. I also wasn’t aware about ansible-development group, thank you for pointing that out.