# Any support for loading rake tasks defined in plugins?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-support-for-loading-rake-tasks-defined-in-plugins/142479
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [February 24, 2020, 2:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-support-for-loading-rake-tasks-defined-in-plugins/142479 "2020-02-24T14:40:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@jamesmarkcook](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jamesmarkcook)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2020, 2:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-support-for-loading-rake-tasks-defined-in-plugins/142479/1 "2020-02-24T14:40:07Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@justin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/justin)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2020, 3:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-support-for-loading-rake-tasks-defined-in-plugins/142479/2 "2020-02-24T15:42:49Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@jamesmarkcook](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jamesmarkcook)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2020, 10:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-support-for-loading-rake-tasks-defined-in-plugins/142479/3 "2020-03-16T10:35:59Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@kimardenmiller](https://meta.discourse.org/u/kimardenmiller)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2020, 8:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-support-for-loading-rake-tasks-defined-in-plugins/142479/4 "2020-11-23T20:16:34Z")
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](https://github.com/ryan-hyer/discourse-subscriptions/blob/master/lib/tasks/procourse_memberships.rake)
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### Author:  [@frank.manuel](https://meta.discourse.org/u/frank.manuel)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2021, 9:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-support-for-loading-rake-tasks-defined-in-plugins/142479/5 "2021-02-15T21:49:42Z")
Hi @kimardenmiller , did you ever find an answer to why your rake task executes twice?
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### Author:  [@kimardenmiller](https://meta.discourse.org/u/kimardenmiller)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2021, 1:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-support-for-loading-rake-tasks-defined-in-plugins/142479/6 "2021-02-16T01:03:47Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2023, 11:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-support-for-loading-rake-tasks-defined-in-plugins/142479/7 "2023-01-14T11:36:41Z")
> [@kimardenmiller](#):
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> 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 twice** _, but the rake task is included even if you don’t reference it, so no need to load it during initialisation.
@frank.manuel
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### Author:  [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2023, 10:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-support-for-loading-rake-tasks-defined-in-plugins/142479/9 "2023-01-16T10:27:07Z")
> [@merefield](#):
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> the rake task is included even if you don’t reference it
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?