From: Harp Oon <harpoon45@...>
Date: 2008-03-16T16:55:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Rake Task: passing params and return values

Harp Oon wrote:
> 1. Is there a way to pass params to a rake task and have it return
> values?
> 
> 2. I have seen the ENV var being used to pass in the args to rake. Is it
> thread safe? Are there any unintended consequences if two controllers
> execute a new task?
> 
> 3. Is it advisable to invoke a rake task (from a controller) to update
> the DB?

My tasks.rake file has:

task :my_script => :environment do
       puts "ID: = #{args.user_id}"
end

and I invoke it using:

 load "#{RAILS_ROOT}/Rakefile"
 def update_user
    Rake::Task["my_script"].invoke
 end

Using the code above, how would I pass in arguments to the script?

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