Rails - Dec 2008 - Calling Rake from INSIDE the application

Hey there
I would like to know if I can call a rake task from inside my Rails App.
Something like

class MyModel < ActiveRecord::Base
  after_save :run_task

  def run_task
    Rake.run("my:little:task")
  end
end

This is the deal: I use thinking-sphinx and need to update a bunch of data
through Model.update_all. But I would like sphinx to index it just after
I''m
done, by running rake ts:index.

Is that possible?

Thanks,
Dante

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def run_task
  result = %x(rake #{params[:rake_task]})
end

If you don''t want to hold the thread you can install the crontab gem
and install a new crontab with a ts:in or use background-fu and push
the job to the background...




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