Running Tasks & Consoles
Running one-off tasks on Fly can be accomplished via fly ssh console
.
Rails Tasks
To execture the rails
command on Fly, run:
fly ssh console -C "app/bin/rails db:migrate"
To list all the available tasks, run:
fly ssh console -C "app/bin/rails help"
Rails Console
To access an interactive Rails console, run:
fly ssh console -C "app/bin/rails console"
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Then start using the console, but be careful! You're in a production environment.
Interactive Shell
To access an interactive shell, simply run:
fly ssh console
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Custom Rake Tasks
You can create Custom Rake Tasks to automate frequently used commands. As an example, add the following into lib/tasks/fly.rake
to reduce the number of keystrokes it takes to launch a console:
namespace :fly do
task :ssh do
sh 'fly ssh console'
end
task :console do
sh 'fly ssh console -C "app/bin/rails console"'
end
task :dbconsole do
sh 'fly ssh console -C "app/bin/rails dbconsole"'
end
end
You can run these tasks with bin/rails fly:ssh
, bin/rails fly:console
, and bin/rails fly:dbconsole
respectively.