I would like to call controller action from rake task. My question is what method is the best to prepare http request? Thanks for all tips.
Edit:
Have someone another tip? I tried this and not work:
controller_obj = Controller.new
controller.your_method
I got this exception:
rake aborted!
uninitialized constant Controller
Edit2:
I tried:
sess = ActionController::Integration::Session.new
sess.post('/route', 'codes=3')
But I got (I have require 'action_controller/integration' in rake file) :
rake aborted!
cannot load such file -- action_controller/integration
task :use_controller_method_in_rake => :environment do
session = ActionDispatch::Integration::Session.new(Rails.application)
session.get "/foo"
session.post "/bar", {my_post_params: 'foobar'}
end
You should move that action's behavior to a model class, then use that action with the instance of that model class. This is the standard approach.
move controller/action
to a model class
(Recommended).
In your rake task, do the following....
model_obj = Model.new
model_obj.your_instance_method
And still you want to call controller action then you should create an instance of your controller in your rake task and call that action with that instance(if that method is an instance method.)
controller_obj = Controller.new
controller.your_method
Thanks @chris-finne, that was very helpful. Note that session.response.body is where
you can access the results. Here's an method I'm using in a rake task:
def api_json_get(url, params={})
@rails_session ||= ActionDispatch::Integration::Session.new(Rails.application)
@rails_session.get(url, { :format => :json }.merge(params))
JSON.parse(@rails_session.response.body)
end
Notice I'm memoizing the session object since it's quite slow to instantiate and I'm calling this method many times.