Without seeing the task I can't tell you the answer to that. And the fact that it runs on a cron schedule means that you probably have something like a worker in the background doing that.
Normally you run rake some_task X="abc" Y="xyz" where X and Y are arguments being passed in. But note that you probably want to prefix the rake task in development with "bundle exec" to get it to run with the right gemset. -Jason On Nov 18, 2014, at 3:33 PM, Robert Fitzpatrick <rob...@webtent.org> wrote: > Jason Fleetwood-Boldt wrote: >> Finally, you probably almost certainly don't want to be running >> RAILS_ENV="production" if you are developing locally on your own >> machine. And learn to use a debugger-- I recommend byebug if you're >> using Ruby 2.0 or above, and put "byebug" at the top of your rake task. >> Then just run your rask task and verify that you fall into the debugger. >> (I'm telling you this as a sanity check methodology because you are >> trying to verify that you know how to run the task) > > Thanks for the info and help. The app is on ruby 1.9.3, I was running rake on > the production machine. I downloaded the app and have it running locally, but > there are some display issues with development, so I was running production. > > I see the task is running via cron every hour, it talks to an ftp server and > gets a file list, then creates playlist files from the list of MP3 files it > finds. I see the task has a lot of puts when 'ARGV = V', should I be able to > run the task with the following command? > > # rake utils:process_archive V' ---- Jason Fleetwood-Boldt t...@datatravels.com http://www.jasonfleetwoodboldt.com/writing All material © Jason Fleetwood-Boldt 2014. Public conversations may be turned into blog posts (original poster information will be made anonymous). Email ja...@datatravels.com with questions/concerns about this. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/94468783-F843-4093-9691-9D98ABC415A6%40datatravels.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.