[Ruby] Where do you put Rails code that normally runs from a command line?

[John Wulff]

> I've got some things for a Rails app that need to run from a
> command line.
> Where do you normally put that code?  (Applying daily charges to
> customer
> accounts, updating records that happen after scraping another side for
> activity, and placing phone calls so far.)

I use rake tasks for that sort of thing.

desc 'Do some cool stuff.'
task :command_name => :environment do
  do whatever
end

Put that in lib/tasks
rake command_name

On 5/23/06, Eric Hodel <drbrain at segment7.net> wrote:
> On May 23, 2006, at 10:30 AM, James Moore wrote:
>
> > I've got some things for a Rails app that need to run from a
> > command line.
> > Where do you normally put that code?  (Applying daily charges to
> > customer
> > accounts, updating records that happen after scraping another side for
> > activity, and placing phone calls so far.)
>
> I put the code in lib and create an executable in bin.  I leave
> script/ for Rails.
>
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