rake only works once from rails

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posted this on Ruby forum, no luck there -

maybe a Railser has dealt with this issue...

I've made a rake task that I'm running from my rails, and it works - but only once. If I then restart the server (mongrel) it works again - once.

I can simulate this in the console session as shown...

q = Rake::Task["cache_sweeper"] => <Rake::Task cache_sweeper => > >> q.invoke => [#<Proc:0xb6d03444@./script/../config/../config/../lib/tasks/cache.rake:4>] >> q = Rake::Task["cache_sweeper"] => <Rake::Task cache_sweeper => > >> q.invoke => nil >>

... when q.invoke returns the "[#Proc:..." it has worked correctly, nil means nothing happened.

Any one have insight to what is happening with rake?

Thank you,

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I was having this problem just last night with a migration. I don't know why it happens, but I can tell you how I got around it: I changed the iteration number of the migration file itself. In other words, I had a file called 001_create_schedules.rb; I renamed the file to 002_create_schedules.rb.

I guess that is more of a workaround than a solution, but it might keep you running in the meantime until you can get a more in-depth response here in the forum (I'm a newbie too).

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that sounds like your schema table had indexed to 1, which would mean it won't run the "001_xxx" migration again

unless you rollback to version 0, or manually change the schema table value to 0

I've embedded a call to a rake task with a controller action, this rake task only runs the first time it is called.

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