Rails: rake task with arguments not working

Question

Here is my rake task

namespace :users do
  task :change_role, [:role] => :environment do |t, args|
    puts args.role
  end
end

I am calling it like this:

rake users:change_role["role"] but I am getting this error no matches found: users:change_role["role"]

Answer 1

You need to escape the square brackets when using them in some shells like zsh:

rake users:change_role\["role"\]