RailsTasker

rails_tasker provides a system to automate your post-deploy tasks as Plain Old Ruby Objects that are easy to test and create.

A new database table (rails_tasker_tasks) is created in order to keep track of the state of each task in a similar way to how rails maintains the states of migrations.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'rails_tasker'

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install rails_tasker

Run the install generator to create the needed configurations and migration:

$ rails generate rails_tasker:install

Run the migration:

$ rails db:migrate

Usage

Create a new task

$ rails generate rails_tasker:task new_task_name

• This will create the following task file: lib/rails_tasker/tasks/<current_timestamp>_new_task_name.rb

Add the logic to the task

• Each task must implement a #call instance method.
  • This is the main method that will be called in order execute your new task.

Run all pending tasks

$ rake rails_tasker:run

Or run a specific task

$ rake rails_tasker:run[version]

Note

It is recommended to run this after the migrations in the deployment process.

That's it. A very simple system for post-deploy tasks.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/mawilmouth/rails_tasker.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.