Question

This is the rake task I am trying to run

desc "This task changed the status of started jobs"
task :start_status => :environment do
   jobs_to_be_started = Job.find_all_by_status("Started")
   jobs_to_be_started do |job|
     job.status = "Running"     
     job.saved
   end
end

And this is the error I am receiving

Rake aborted! undefined method `jobs_to_be_started' for main:Object

Have had a google and can’t see an obvious answer, can anyone point me in the right direction?

Answer 1

Probably you’ve missed an iterator (each for example)?

desc "This task changed the status of started jobs"
task :start_status => :environment do
   jobs_to_be_started = Job.find_all_by_status("Started")
   jobs_to_be_started.each do |job|
     job.status = "Running"     
     job.save
   end
end

And also you will probably get an error on job.saved, is that a misprint? i would suggest you to use update_attributes here, like

jobs_to_be_started.each do |job|
  job.update_attributes :status => "Running"
end