Run rake task in controller

Question

I'd like to run a rake task in my controller. Is there any way to do this?

Answer 1

I agree with ddfreynee, but in case you know what you need code can look like:

require 'rake'  Rake::Task.clear # necessary to avoid tasks being loaded several times in dev mode Sample::Application.load_tasks # providing your application name is 'sample'  class RakeController < ApplicationController    def run     Rake::Task[params[:task]].reenable # in case you're going to invoke the same task second time.     Rake::Task[params[:task]].invoke   end  end 

You can require 'rake' and .load_tasks in an initializer instead.

Answer 2

I don't find it good style to call a rake task in code. I recommend putting the code for the task that you want to execute somewhere outside a rake task, and have the rake task call this code.

This not only has the advantage of being easy to call outside rake (which is what you want), but it also makes it much easier to test the rake task.