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Asked: 2026-06-03T12:40:11+00:00

Found this post Include namespace in Rails 3.1 console but it doesn’t seem to

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Found this post Include namespace in Rails 3.1 console but it doesn’t seem to work.

The following lib/task defined and it works from the command line: rake namespace_name:task_name.

How to call a method method_name in namespace_name from within the console, without calling the task?

rails console
namespace_name::task_name
NameError: undefined local variable or method 'namespace_name' for main:Object

irb namespace_name
NameError: undefined local variable or method 'namespace_name' for main:Object

Working in Rails 3.07, Ubuntu.

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you want to call a method defined inside a .rake file you do something similar to what @Nate said, but instead of calling the raketask, call the method:

    require 'rake'
Rake.load_rakefile 'lib/tasks/namespace_name.rake'
method_name(arg1, arg2)

    It feels kind of strange that you don’t need to specify the namespaces but I just tried this and it worked.

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