Accepting user input from the console/command prompt inside a rake task

Question

I\'m writing a custom rake task for Rails, and there is a point the program where it summarises what it\'s going to do and then asks the user if what it\'s about to do is correc

Answer 1

Rake tasks are stored in the lib/tasks folder of the Rails application. The rake task's file should end with the .rake extension; for example: populate.rake.

Accepting the input is done with STDIN.gets.chomp instead of gets.chomp.

namespace :db do
  desc "Prints the migrated versions"
  task :populate => :environment do
    puts "\n Is this what you want to happen? [Y/N]"
    answer = STDIN.gets.chomp
    puts answer
    if answer == "Y"
      # your code here
    elsif answer == "N"
      return false # Abort the rake task
    end
  end
end

You can run this rake task with: rake db:populate