I think you should fix the offending migrations to be less fragile, I’d guess that a couple of if statements and perhaps a rescue would be sufficient. But, if fixing the migrations really isn’t an option, you can fake it in various ways. First of all, you could just comment out the migration methods, run … Read more
You can use # TODO, # FIXME, and # OPTIMIZE and you can easily get all of these with the following rake task: rake notes In addition to the default annotations, you can always specify and search for your own annotations: rake notes:custom ANNOTATION=ZOMG
Update: Gotcha This potentially adds the method to global scope and will conflict with any other method with the same name. Look at @Hula_Zell’s answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/44294243/584440 for a better way. Original answer You are defining the method inside the rake task. For getting the function, you should define outside the rake task (outside the task … Read more
For this particular task, you only need to change the DB connection, so as Adam pointed out, you can do this: namespace :db do namespace :test do task :reset do ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(‘test’) Rake::Task[‘db:drop’].invoke Rake::Task[‘db:create’].invoke Rake::Task[‘db:migrate’].invoke ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(ENV[‘RAILS_ENV’]) #Make sure you don’t have side-effects! end end end If your task is more complicated, and you need other aspects … Read more
Rake and Thor serve different purposes. Rake is a general build script tool that is project-specific. In other words, you put your rakefile into your project folder and in your project’s source control, and you can create, build and do other automation tasks that are specific to your project in that rakefile. Rake requires a … Read more
EDIT 2: You should look at bundle update and change your workflow a little. Refer to this question for further assistance. Original answer This is a simple issue which happens when your gemset has a rake version that is newer than the version number your Gemfile.lock mentions. As is mentioned in the error message, you … Read more
Use the raise or fail method as you would for any other Ruby script (fail is an alias for raise). This method takes a string or exception as an argument which is used as the error message displayed at termination of the script. This will also cause the script to return the value 1 to … Read more
Rake is a “software task management tool“, similar to Make, etc. in other systems. See: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/command_line.html#rake Rake is Ruby Make, a standalone Ruby utility that replaces the Unix utility ‘make’, and uses a ‘Rakefile’ and .rake files to build up a list of tasks. In Rails, Rake is used for common administration tasks, especially sophisticated … Read more
Yes, you can. You simply need to require the helper file and then include that helper inside your rake file (which actually a helper is a mixin that we can include). For example, here I have an application_helper file inside app/helpers directory that contains this: module ApplicationHelper def hi “hi” end end so here is … Read more
Something like this might work task :action do STDOUT.puts “I’m acting!” end task :check do STDOUT.puts “Are you sure? (y/n)” input = STDIN.gets.strip if input == ‘y’ Rake::Task[“action”].reenable Rake::Task[“action”].invoke else STDOUT.puts “So sorry for the confusion” end end Task reenabling and invoking from How to run Rake tasks from within Rake tasks?