Monkeypatch a model in a rake task to use a method provided by a plugin?
- by gduquesnay.mp
During some recent refactoring we changed how our user avatars are stored not realizing that once deployed it would affect all the existing users. So now I'm trying to write a rake task to fix this by doing something like this.
namespace :fix do
desc "Create associated ImageAttachment using data in the Users photo fields"
task :user_avatars => :environment do
class User
# Paperclip
has_attached_file :photo ... <paperclip stuff, styles etc>
end
User.all.each do |user|
i = ImageAttachment.new
i.photo_url = user.photo.url
user.image_attachments << i
end
end
end
When I try running that though I'm getting undefined method `has_attached_file' for User:Class
I'm able to do this in script/console but it seems like it can't find the paperclip plugin's methods from a rake task.
