How to access variables in multiple rake tasks using Ruby on Rails

Question

I saw several solutions that didn't seem to work for me. Suppose I have the following code -

namespace :genie do task :test => :environment do test_user = User.find_or_create_by_username('test') do |i| i.email = ' [e-mail] ' end task :test_reset => :environment do test_user.update_attributes({ :email => ' [e-mail] ', }) end 

This code does not work when running rake genie: test, rake genie: test_reset because test_user is not defined in the second rake command. How can I call test_user without having to define it every time?

Answer 1

You can encapsulate a user definition in a helper function.

 namespace :genie do task :test => :environment do puts test_user.email end task :test_reset => :environment do test_user.update_attributes({ :email => ' [e-mail] ', }) end end def test_user User.find_or_create_by_username('test') do |i| i.email = [e-mail] end end