Question

I am unable to load file based on the parameters passed to the rake rask

my code

task :update_s =>:environment do
 puts 'enter file name for status'
 file=STDIN.gets
 file="config/status/#{file}"
 license_status=YAML.load_file(file)
end

parameter passed is abc.yml but i get a error that

No such file or directory - config/status/abc.yml

but if i hardcode the file name (code given below ) it works

task :update_s =>:environment do

 license_status=YAML.load_file("config/status/abc.yml")

end

I have tried few combination of it none of the worked. Is there a way to load a yml file based on parameters passed to the rake task.

Answer 1

This is because gets returns the newline character, so file is actually "config/status/abc.yml\n"

You can remove the newline character with chomp:

file = STDIN.gets.chomp