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Can I catch errors and continue to next Rake task?

I invoke Rake tasks in another Rake task like following:

namespace :test do
  task :migrate do
    Rake::Task['A:migrate'].invoke
    Rake::Task['B:migrate'].invoke
  end
end

What I want to know is whether I can continue to the next Rake task even if the earlier one fails. For instance, there is an error in A:migrate, I want to catch it and log it but move ahead with B:migrate. How can I do this?

Solution

  • Rake is just Ruby, so you can use Ruby's error handling feature.

    namespace :test do
  task :migrate do
    begin
      Rake::Task['A:migrate'].invoke
    rescue => e
      log(e)
    end
    Rake::Task['B:migrate'].invoke
  end
end