How do I run Rake tasks within a Ruby script?

"from timocracy.com:

require 'rake'

def capture_stdout
s = StringIO.new
oldstdout = $stdout
$stdout = s
yield
s.string
ensure
$stdout = oldstdout
end

Rake.application.rake_require 'metric_fetcher', ['../../lib/tasks']
results = capture_stdout {Rake.application['metric_fetcher'].invoke}"

"This works with Rake version 10.0.3:

require 'rake'
app = Rake.application
app.init
# do this as many times as needed
app.add_import 'some/other/file.rake'
# this loads the Rakefile and other imports
app.load_rakefile

app['sometask'].invoke

As knut said, use reenable if you want to invoke multiple times."

"You can use invoke and reenable to execute the task a second time.

Your example call rake blog:post Title seems to have a parameter. This parameter can be used as a parameter in invoke:

Example:

require 'rake'
task 'mytask', :title do |tsk, args|
p ""called #{tsk} (#{args[:title]})""
end

Rake.application['mytask'].invoke('one')
Rake.application['mytask'].reenable
Rake.application['mytask'].invoke('two')

Please replace mytask with blog:post and instead the task definition you can require your rakefile.

This solution will write the result to stdout - but you did not mention, that you want to suppress output.

Interesting experiment:

You can call the reenable also inside the task definition. This allows a task to reenable himself.

Example:

require 'rake'
task 'mytask', :title do |tsk, args|
p ""called #{tsk} (#{args[:title]})""
tsk.reenable #<-- HERE
end

Rake.application['mytask'].invoke('one')
Rake.application['mytask'].invoke('two')

The result (tested with rake 10.4.2):

""called mytask (one)""
""called mytask (two)"""

In a script with Rails loaded (e.g. rails runner script.rb)