Comments on: creating a custom rake task

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:18:48 +0000

:task_name => :environment will load the Rails environment, which will allow you to access things like your ActiveRecord models or Rails config. Without that you can just run pure Ruby code.

By: Aravind

Aravind — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:51:52 +0000

Thank you for your post…

Could you tell me the significance of :environment in :task_name => :environment. what happens if i vomit this :environment ?

By: SSCirrus

SSCirrus — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 06:29:51 +0000

This is a very helpful post, thank you for writing it!

Are there any significant updates to the above methodology you are aware of for Rails 3?

By: Ray

Ray — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 19:36:20 +0000

If you want your greet task to appear when you do ‘rake -T’ you need to add a description.

Also if you envision doing ‘rake gems:install’ at any point to you should move ‘require faker’ into the body of a task. Otherwise if you run ‘rake gems:install’ without faker installed, rake will fail. Here you could put it as the first line of your ‘fake_people’ task but you could also create a ‘require_faker’ task that did the require and was a dependency of ‘require_people’.