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How to call a rake task in rspec


I am trying to invoke a rake task in in my rspec.

  require "rake"
  rake = Rake::Application.new
  Rake.application = rake
  rake.init
  rake.load_rakefile
  rake['rake my:task'].invoke

But i am getting error

 Failure/Error: rake['rake db:migrate'].invoke
 RuntimeError:
   Don't know how to build task 'rake db:migrate'

Does anyone have a idea how we can invoke rake task in rspec code.

Any help would be highly appreciated.


Solution

  • To pass in the arguments in square brackets to invoke:

    rake sim:manual_review_referral_program[3,4]
    

    becomes:

    rake['sim:manual_review_referral_program'].invoke(3,4)
    

    If your args are in an array, you can do the following:

    args = [3,4]
    rake['sim:manual_review_referral_program'].invoke(*args)
    

    More info at this StackOverflow question: How to run Rake tasks from within Rake tasks?.