I'm still learning rails and I've run into a problem that has me baffled and google hasn't been able to help.
I'm using the GeoKit plugin to handle the geocoding of one of my models. The model has a method called do_geocode(addr) that takes an address string (addr), does the geocoding and assigns the appropriate attributes based on the response. I've tested this quite a bit using my web interface and have had no problems. Now, though, I'm trying to do geocoding from a rake task, and this method always mysteriously fails. The rake task reads in an address string from a file and calls go_geocode on the model object.
Are rake tasks not able to utilize the full functionally of models that have plugin functionality mixed in? The rake task code is included below:
require 'csv'
namespace :util do desc 'Import CSV file of stuff' task(:import => :environment) do CSV::Reader.parse(File.open('./lib/tasks/test.csv', 'r')) do |row| store = Store.new do |c| c.name = row[0] c.phone = row[1] addr = row[2] c.do_geocode(addr) end
if store.valid? # It is never valid because do_geocode always fails puts 'Store is valid' else store.errors.each_full{ |msg| puts msg } end
end end end
