Calling Rake from INSIDE the application

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Hey there

I would like to know if I can call a rake task from inside my Rails App. Something like

class MyModel < ActiveRecord::Base

after_save :run_task

def run_task

Rake.run(“my:little:task”)

end

end

This is the deal: I use thinking-sphinx and need to update a bunch of data through Model.update_all. But I would like sphinx to index it just after I’m done, by running rake ts:index.

Is that possible?

Thanks,

Dante

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def run_task   result = %x(rake #{params[:rake_task]}) end

If you don't want to hold the thread you can install the crontab gem and install a new crontab with a ts:in or use background-fu and push the job to the background...