Question

This is a 2nd part to the following question:

Where to put model "utility" functions in Ruby on Rails

Problem is, I need access to these utility functions from a rake task as well. Using the accepted technique in in the other thread, I get an “undefined method” error when accessing my model from a rake task.

What is the best way to fix this?
Thanks

Answer 1

You probably need to define your rake task as dependent on the Rails environment:

task :my_task => :environment do
  # Will load Rails stack before executing this block

  MyModel.foo
end

The default behavior is to load almost nothing, so you won’t have access to your models unless you ask for it.