Do rails rake tasks provide access to ActiveRecord models?

Question

I am trying to create a custom rake task, but it seems I dont have access to my models. I thought this was something implicitly included with rails task.

I have the following code in lib/tasks/test.rake:

namespace :test do   task :new_task do     puts Parent.all.inspect   end end 

And here is what my parent model looks like:

class Parent < ActiveRecord::Base   has_many :children end 

It's a pretty simple example, but I get the following error:

/> rake test:new_task (in /Users/arash/Documents/dev/soft_deletes) rake aborted! uninitialized constant Parent  (See full trace by running task with --trace) 

Any ideas? Thanks

Answer 1

Figured it out, the task should look like:

namespace :test do   task :new_task => :environment do     puts Parent.all.inspect   end end 

Notice the => :environment dependency added to the task