From: Julian Leviston <julian@...>
Date: 2008-03-31T09:33:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Running a rake task from a controller (pass/return values)

Wow...

It's like a bundle of mixedupness! :-)

Can I ask why you're using a rake task?

Better to clarify what you're talking about first, then we can help out.

Julian.


On 16/03/2008, at 1:01 PM, Harp Oon wrote:

> I'm a RoR noob.
> I have a controller that receives data from a view. I want to save  
> that
> data into a DB, which is fine. After saving the data, I want to run a
> rake task on it to get more data to save it in the DB.
>
> The rake task work fine, but I can't figure out a way to pass in the
> recordID for the task I want the task to run on.
>
> Within the rake task I can access all the data within a table and run
> the task on all the data, but I don't want that to happen. All I  
> want is
> to pass in the recordID for the task to run on .
>
> Also, is there a way for a rake task to return an array back to the
> controller?
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