Rake Task Support in Recurring Jobs

[kaka-ruto]

Would you be open to supporting rake tasks in recurring jobs?

Something like this

production:
  generate_sitemap:
    rake: sitemap:refresh
    flags:
      s: true
      verbose: true
    schedule: every day at 3am

  custom_rake_task:
    rake: my:custom:task
    args: ['arg1', 'arg2']
    flags:
      environment: production
    schedule: every hour

I can give it a jab.

[kylekeesling]

I like this idea. To solve this for now I created a generic Job that allows me to pass rake tasks in as the argument:

# frozen_string_literal: true

class RakeTaskJob < ApplicationJob
  queue_as :default

  def perform(command)
    require "rake"

    Rake.application.init
    Rake.application.load_rakefile

    Rake::Task[command].invoke
  end
end

Then I can just do this in recurring.yml:

  monday_job:
    class: RakeTaskJob
    args: "scheduled_tasks:monday_jobs"
    schedule: every Monday at 7am UTC

[gazeldx]

Thanks @kylekeesling

# works in Rails 8
class RakeTaskJob < ApplicationJob
  queue_as :default

  def perform(task_name)
    YourAppName::Application.load_tasks

    Rake::Task[task_name].invoke
  end
end

production:
  refresh_sitemap_job:
    class: RakeTaskJob
    args: "sitemap:refresh:no_ping"
    schedule: every day at 16:30

[nflorentin]

thanks @gazeldx

For me, first execution was okay but the next ones were doing nothing, I had to add a line to reenable the rake task.

class RakeTaskJob < ApplicationJob
  def perform(task_name)
    Rails.application.load_tasks

    Rake::Task[task_name].invoke
    Rake::Task[task_name].reenable
  end
end

[rosa]

I think the solution from @kylekeesling here is a good one so I'm going to close this as not planned right now, but I might come back to it in the future.