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Saturday, November 1, 2008

Calling rake tasks from another rake task

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



A rake task to rebuild the development database


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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Awesome! Thanks!

House 9 said...

Also if the task you are calling takes args you can pass them in a hash to the execute method

some_value = "testing"
Rake::Task["your_task"].execute({:some_param => some_value})

read more about rake args
http://dev.nuclearrooster.com/2009/01/05/rake-task-with-arguments/

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