Running Rake Tasks
Introduction
You can choose to run your rake tasks automatically or manually. Running them automatically involves either scheduling them by using the rake task add-on or by using deploy hooks. Alternatively, you can run them manually on your server. This guide will walk you through each of these.
Scheduled
Read more about the rake task add-in in the documentation.
Deployment hooks
You can use deploy hooks to execute your rake task at any point of your deployment.
Simply add a bash script to your stack that contains the rake task: for example, create the file /.cloud66/scripts/rake_task.sh as below:
#!/bin/bash
cd $STACK_PATH
bundle exec rake your:task
Then, add a deploy_hook to execute the above script on each deploy: create the file .cloud66/deploy_hooks.yml as below:
production:
after_rails:
- source: /.cloud66/scripts/rake_task.sh
destination: /tmp/rake_task.sh
target: rails
execute: true
run_on: all_servers
apply_during: all
sudo: true
Manually
This is done by starting a terminal connection to your server and executing your rake task.
$ cd $STACK_PATH
$ bundle exec rake your:task
