I get an error whenever I try to use the function gets within a rake task. Is there a way to make it work?
The error says, "no such file or directory - (rake task name)"
A:
I don't think that you should be using gets in a rake task, if you need to get input from the command line you probably should pass it in as a parameter, but if you post some code that is not working then I am sure you will get a better answer.
railsninja
2009-02-23 09:58:46
In general, command line arguments _are_ a better option, but there are plenty of good reasons to use gets within a rake task. Most of them have to do with authentication or verification that you really want to be doing what you tell rake to do. ("deploy production code")
James A. Rosen
2009-02-23 14:55:22
+10
A:
The problem is that Kernel#gets (which is what you're calling if you just use gets by itself) assumes you're pulling from a file named by the arguments passed to Rake. That means gets tries to return the content of a file called [rake-task-here], which almost certainly doesn't exist.
Try STDIN.gets.
James A. Rosen
2009-02-23 14:46:59