Running Rake Tasks in a Loop

Rake tasks in a loop, will only executed once if they are not “re-enabled”. Take a look at this example:

namespace :yoksis do
  desc 'fetches all references'
  task :references do
    mapping = {
      get_instruction_language: 'UnitInstructionLanguage',
      get_instruction_type: 'UnitInstructionType'
    }

    mapping.each do |action, klass|
      Rake::Task['yoksis:reference'].invoke(action, klass)
    end
  end

  desc 'fetch an individual reference'
  task :reference, %i[soap_method klass] => [:environment] do |_, args|
    puts args[:soap_method]
    puts args[:klass]
  end
end

When you run the yoksis:references task, it will only print out {get_instruction_language: 'UnitInstructionLanguage'} and will skip the second item of the mapping hash.

Strange, isn’t it? To overcome this issue, the rake task needs to be reenabled during the iteration:

Rake::Task['yoksis:reference'].reenable

So the previous task becomes:

namespace :yoksis do
  desc 'fetches all references'
  task :references do
    mapping = {
      get_instruction_language: 'UnitInstructionLanguage',
      get_instruction_type: 'UnitInstructionType'
    }

    mapping.each do |action, klass|
      Rake::Task['yoksis:reference'].invoke(action, klass)
      Rake::Task['yoksis:reference'].reenable
    end
  end

  desc 'fetch an individual reference'
  task :reference, %i[soap_method klass] => [:environment] do |_, args|
    puts args[:soap_method]
    puts args[:klass]
  end
end

Cheers.