Execute system command with Rake outside Bundle scope

Question

Let say I have this Rake task:

namespace :db do
  namespace :dump do.
    desc 'Backup database dump to s3'
    task :backup => :environment do 
      cmd = ['backup', 'perform',  '-t project_backup',  "-c #{Rails.root.join 'lib', 'backup', 'config.rb'}"] 
      system(*cmd)                      # ...I've tried `` & exec() sa well, same thing
    end
  end
end

Backup gem is stand alone ruby gem application which dependencies needs to be isolated from application bundler. In other words it cannot be part of Gemfile. This gem is simply installed over gem install backup

When I run backup command over bash console, it successfully run:

$ backup perform -t validations_backup -c /home/equivalent/my_project/lib/backup/config.rb

When I execute rake db:dump:backup I will get

backup is not part of the bundle. Add it to Gemfile. (Gem::LoadError)

...which is the same thing when I run backup command with bundle exec from bash

$ bundle exec backup perform -t validations_backup -c /home/equivalent/my_project/lib/backup/config.rb

...meaning that the backup command is executed over bundler when run as part of rake task.

my question: How can I run rake db:dump:backup outsite the bundle scope, meaning that backup command won`t be executed over bundler?

Thank you

Answer 1

I found a workaround for this problem here:

namespace :db do
  namespace :dump do
    desc 'Backup database dump to s3'
    task :backup do
      Bundler.with_clean_env do
        sh "backup perform -t project_backup -c #{Rails.root.join 'lib', 'backup', 'config.rb'}"
      end
    end
  end
end

The key here is to enclose the code that must not run under bundler's environment in a block like this:

Bundler.with_clean_env do
  # Code that needs to run without the bundler environment loaded
end