Rails - Dec 2006 - Required file for rake task -- put into a plugin?

Hello all. I''ve just written up a bit of ruby code that I''d
like to use
in a rake task for my web application (it has to be run on a schedule,
and calling rake through cron seems to be a good way to do that).

My question is: Where should I place this code so that it''s both
accessible to the rake task and logically located in the rails
application directory structure?

I could place it into a plugin. However, I don''t feel entirely
comfortable with that approach since this functionality is pretty
important to the application. It''s not really something that should be
tacked on.

I could also place the code into the lib/tasks directory. However, that
seems rather messy.

Where would you put it? Thanks for any suggestions or insight.

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Hello Jon,

2006/12/5, Jon Fuller
<rails-mailing-list@andreas-s.net>:
> I could also place the code into the lib/tasks directory. However, that
> seems rather messy.
Why do you think it's messy ?  That's where Rake tasks are supposed to
go.

Simply name your file "lib/tasks/mytasks.rake" and go from there.

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Thanks, François!
I have no problem putting the rake file in the lib/tasks directory. I''m
just curious whether I should also put my library file (containing 
objects I use in the rake task) in the same place. It just struck me as 
a little messy to put it in the same directory as the rake task files.
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Okay, I went googling around the web and ran across at least one example 
of libraries being placed in -- you guessed it -- the lib directory. 
That seems to work correctly for rake and the application controllers. 
It also doesn''t offend my rails-powered sense of
''rightness''.

( Ah, so obvious... )

Thanks!

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Hello Jon,

2006/12/5, Jon Fuller
<rails-mailing-list@andreas-s.net>:
> Okay, I went googling around the web and ran across at least one example
> of libraries being placed in -- you guessed it -- the lib directory.
> That seems to work correctly for rake and the application controllers.
> It also doesn't offend my rails-powered sense of 'rightness'.
I realize now that I misread your original E-Mail.  You wanted to have
some utility code available for the Rake task, but not necessarily for
the rest of the application.  Now that I understand your requirement,
I guess I would simply have dropped the code in the task file.
Simple, effective.

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