Run Rails rake task in Elastic Beanstalk environment

Question

Does anyone know the easiest way to run a rake task for a Rails app on an Elastic Beanstalk environment?

I have some data that I want to reset every once in a while (timeline TBD). I've seen other posts talking about creating a cron task, but I just want to be able to execute the task on a one-off basis for now.

Answer 1

You'd need to login to the box in order to run a rake task.
simply run eb ssh <env-name>
your app is at /var/app/current

Answer 2

Figured out a way.

• SSH into your EC2 instance using the following instructions: SSH Instructions (I used option 3)
• Navigate to the /var/app/current directory once you're logged in
• Run your rake task (rake db:migrate or whatever task you're trying to run)