I need to be able to run custom tasks against a Discourse forum. Is there any way of loading rake tasks defined in a plugin so that these can be used in production?

I think this should work. Just put them in the same directory in the plugin as where they live in core. I’ve done this in the past with creating a rake task that runs after another but haven’t created a standalone task.

Yep this works. It didn’t appear to work for me at first hence me asking the question, but I’ve tried this again and works first time. I added my rake task in lib/tasks in my plugin. Thought I’d confirm this works for anyone else that stumbles upon this.

Anyone experience lib/tasks rake tasks executing twice? Ours seems to execute twice from rake subscriptions:procourse_convert. https://github.com/ryan-hyer/discourse-subscriptions/blob/master/lib/tasks/procourse_memberships.rake

Hi @kimardenmiller , did you ever find an answer to why your rake task executes twice?

I think it might have had something to do with declaring the same method in two places, which I think caused it to run twice. Not verified, but check for that.

[image] Kim Miller: I think it might have had something to do with declaring the same method in two places EDIT: I think I worked out how this happens. It’s not really following convention, or rather perhaps too much. The issue is if you reference the rake file in plugin.rb it seems to run …

Any support for loading rake tasks defined in plugins?

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david (David Taylor) January 16, 2023, 10:27am 9

AFAIK there isn’t any discourse-specific logic here. My guess would be that the task files are autoloaded if you defined a ::Rails::Engine for your plugin?

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