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

Instead of trying to call a rake task in a controller, call a service objects that contains whatever logic you are trying to execute.

class SomeController < ApplicationController
  def whatever
    SomeServiceObject.call
  end
end

...and then, assuming you are talking about a custom rake task, have it call the service object as well:

namespace :example do
  desc 'important task'
  task :important_task do
    SomeServiceObject.call
  end
end

In case you are not familiar with service objects, they are just plain old ruby classes that do a specific job. If you are trying to call some of the default rake tasks (ie: db:migrate) I would highly recommend not doing that sort of thing from a controller.