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ruby-on-railsrake
styliii
styliii

Reputation: 646

custom rake task error

I'm trying to run a custom rake test. Here's the code:

task :test => :environment do
  user = User.first
  puts "Winner: #{user.email}"
  puts "test"
end

But when I run it, I get this error.

$ rake test

rake aborted!
undefined method `email' for nil:NilClass

Tasks: TOP => test
(See full trace by running task with --trace)

Any insight on why I don't have access to the class User? Even though I have :environment in there?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 207

Answers (2)

sameera207
sameera207

Reputation: 16629

The reason you are getting this error is for some reason you don't get any users for 

User.first

You could check this by using debugger or simply try 

User.first.nil?

Upvotes: 0

tomthorgal
tomthorgal

Reputation: 525

I ran in to something similar recently. I tried to get the id and I was not able to get this to work until I used a mapping. Try this:

task :test => :environment do 
  email = User.first.map(&:email)
  puts "Winner: #{email}"
  puts "test" 
end

I am not saying this is the proper way to do it, but it worked for me.

Upvotes: 1

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