Calling rake tasks from another rake task

This turns out to be pretty straight forward, but was not obvious

<br /> Rake::Task['task_name'].execute<br />

A rake task to rebuild the development database
<br />desc 'drop, create and rebuild development db'<br />task(:rebuild_development_db) do<br /> puts "drop the db"<br /> Rake::Task['db:drop'].execute <br /> puts "create the db"<br /> Rake::Task['db:create'].execute<br /> puts "run the migrations"<br /> Rake::Task['db:migrate'].execute<br /> # do other stuff...<br />end<br />

Resources

• http://www.railsenvy.com/2007/6/11/ruby-on-rails-rake-tutorial
• Pastie code sample Rake calling Rake