Rake::Task['task_name'].execute
A rake task to rebuild the development database
desc 'drop, create and rebuild development db' task(:rebuild_development_db) do puts "drop the db" Rake::Task['db:drop'].execute puts "create the db" Rake::Task['db:create'].execute puts "run the migrations" Rake::Task['db:migrate'].execute # do other stuff... end
Resources
2 comments:
Awesome! Thanks!
Also if the task you are calling takes args you can pass them in a hash to the execute method
some_value = "testing"
Rake::Task["your_task"].execute({:some_param => some_value})
read more about rake args
http://dev.nuclearrooster.com/2009/01/05/rake-task-with-arguments/
Post a Comment