Custom rake task for DB: Table not found

Question

I have a custom rake task, that creates a development DB with data for various situation. The core looks like this:

namespace :db do
  task setup_seed: :environment do
    Rake::Task['db:drop'].invoke
    Rake::Task['db:create'].invoke
    Rake::Task['db:schema:load'].invoke
    Rake::Task['db:migrate'].invoke
    Rake::Task['db:test:prepare'].invoke
    Rake::Task['db:seed'].invoke
  end
end

Everything runs fine, until db:seed is invoked, because it throws an error that tables does not exist. This is my seed.rb:

puts Rails.env
# => development
puts Article.count
# rake aborted!
# Mysql2::Error: Table 'app_test.articles' doesn't exist: SHOW FULL FIELDS FROM `articles`
# /usr/src/app/db/seeds.rb:2:in `<top (required)>'
# /usr/src/app/Rakefile:16:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'
# Tasks: TOP => db:seed

I noticed two strange things here:

• First of all it doesn't find the table articles (or any table). When I halt at the beginning of my seed file and look into the DB (development), the tables are present, but the test db is empty
• I've printed the Rails.env and it returns development. However the failure message states that it tries to load the DB app_test.articles and not app_development.articles.

So I think this two issues are related.

Answer 1

I found the solution myself. The problem was, that the task Rake::Task['db:test:prepare'].invoke changes the environment to test, so putting that line to the bottom of the script and everything works:

namespace :db do
  task setup_seed: :environment do
    Rake::Task['db:drop'].invoke
    Rake::Task['db:create'].invoke
    Rake::Task['db:schema:load'].invoke
    Rake::Task['db:migrate'].invoke
    Rake::Task['db:seed'].invoke
    Rake::Task['db:test:prepare'].invoke # this one should be at the bottom
  end
end

Answer 2

It looks like you are running your rake task in development environment, but db:test:prepare runs in test by default. Try invoking:

RAILS_ENV=test rake db:setup_seed