Run Rails rake task in Elastic Beanstalk environment

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Does anyone know the easiest way to run a rake task for a Rails app on an Elastic Beanstalk environment?

I have some data that I want to reset every once in a while (timeline TBD). I've seen other posts talking about creating a cron task, but I just want to be able to execute the task on a one-off basis for now.

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score 9 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 12 '15 at 08:32

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You'd need to login to the box in order to run a rake task.
simply run eb ssh <env-name>
your app is at /var/app/current

answered Nov 12 '15 at 08:32

Tal

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oh - just saw you found an answer. I think "eb ssh" would serve you better than plain ssh. – Tal Nov 12 '15 at 08:32
Yea, thanks for the tip on the "eb ssh." One thing I had to do was create a "known_hosts" folder in my .ssh directory and move a copy of my .pem key there to get it to work – Dennis Dec 03 '15 at 19:13

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 11 '15 at 21:29

Figured out a way.

SSH into your EC2 instance using the following instructions: SSH Instructions (I used option 3)
Navigate to the /var/app/current directory once you're logged in
Run your rake task (rake db:migrate or whatever task you're trying to run)

Run Rails rake task in Elastic Beanstalk environment

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