Comments on: Making Rake tasks ignore Rails observers http://www.jamesrobey.com/making-rake-tasks-ignore-rails-observers/ ruby/rails/ppc/seo/4hww/geoarbitrage/vagabond/catamaran/3flags/hydroponics/economics/philosophy/outerspace/etc Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:55:24 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Flinn http://www.jamesrobey.com/making-rake-tasks-ignore-rails-observers/comment-page-1/#comment-58 Flinn Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:36:52 +0000 http://jamesrobey.com/making-rake-tasks-ignore-rails-observers/#comment-58 You can also not use config/environments.rb to load observers and instead use config/initializers/observers.rb like so: <code> ActiveRecord::Base.observers = :cacher, :garbage_collector ActiveRecord::Base.instantiate_observers </code> You can also not use config/environments.rb to load observers and instead use config/initializers/observers.rb like so:


ActiveRecord::Base.observers = :cacher, :garbage_collector
ActiveRecord::Base.instantiate_observers

]]> By: Panasonic Youth – Rails observers make rake db:migrate crash from version 0 http://www.jamesrobey.com/making-rake-tasks-ignore-rails-observers/comment-page-1/#comment-21 Panasonic Youth – Rails observers make rake db:migrate crash from version 0 Tue, 08 Jan 2008 16:15:15 +0000 http://jamesrobey.com/making-rake-tasks-ignore-rails-observers/#comment-21 [...] Some googling led me to James Robey's proposed fix, which as the downfall of disabling the observer for any call to rake. This little hack should be a bit better, in that it will only disable the observer for rake db:migrate calls: # observers break a migrate from VERSION 0 - disable them for rake db:migrate unless ( File.basename($0) == "rake" && ARGV == ["db:migrate"] )    config.active_record.observers = :user_observer end [...] [...] Some googling led me to James Robey’s proposed fix, which as the downfall of disabling the observer for any call to rake. This little hack should be a bit better, in that it will only disable the observer for rake db:migrate calls: # observers break a migrate from VERSION 0 – disable them for rake db:migrate unless ( File.basename($0) == “rake” && ARGV == [”db:migrate”] )    config.active_record.observers = :user_observer end [...]

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