Add Output to Your Long Running Rake Tasks - NRoweGT: Atlanta Ruby on Rails Consultancy

Have you ever worked on an item, tested it thoroughly on a staging environment, done extra dry runs for good measure, been completely satisfied with the results, only to have it hit production and you have no idea whether it’s working properly? I had such an experience recently with a one-off rake task. The following details that, along with what I learned and how to prevent it from happening to your projects. Chalk up another lesson about what it means for a feature to be complete.