How do I run rake tasks within my rails application

Question

What I want to do:

In a model.rb, in after_commit, I want to run rake task ts:reindex

ts:reindex is normally run with a rake ts:index

Answer 1

I had this same issue and couldn't get the accepted answer to work in my controller with a Rails 4 project due to a load file error. This post gave me a working solution:

def restart_search
   require 'rake'
   spec = Gem::Specification.find_by_name 'thinking-sphinx'
   load "#{spec.gem_dir}/lib/thinking_sphinx/tasks.rb"
   Rake::Task["ts:stop"].execute
   Rake::Task["ts:start"].execute
   respond_to do |format|
     format.js { head :ok }
   end
end