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Posted by darius goore
darius goore
3,803 Points

Rake task question

I sometimes get an error when I try to run a rake task, "Don't know how to build task..."

Can someone explain how to solve this?

Secondly, I am attempting to write a rake task to pull data from a csv file to edit existing records in a table. I have a draft but perhaps due to question 1 i am not sure if I have it right.

2 Answers

darius goore
darius goore
3,803 Points
darius goore
darius goore
3,803 Points

ok i think I fixed question 1, but the data is not updated after the task runs.

here is the task as written now:

desc "Add-Edit xxxx as specified in xxxx_data_edit_list.csv file" task :edit_data_existing_listings => :environment do p "Task started!" filepath = File.dirname FILE if Rails.env == 'production' file_name = "/xxxx_data_edit_list.csv" end CSV.foreach(filepath + file_name, headers: true) do |xxxx| xxxxs = xxxx.to_hash xxxx_obj = Xxxx.find_by_id(xxxxs["xxxx_id"]) unless xxxx_obj.nil? xxxx_obj.name = xxxx.title xxxx_obj.description = xxxx.description xxxx_obj.email = xxxx.email xxxx_obj.save end end p "Done!" end

I get Done! but nothing is changed. I think I am using find_by_id incorrectly but not sure.

darius goore
darius goore
3,803 Points
darius goore
darius goore
3,803 Points

Still working on this the task runs, i get no method errors for name, description etc and rake is aborted