Rake feature to ping the ladies

features/generated_dates.feature

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+Feature: Dates generated by instalover
+
+  Scenario: Instalover generates dates for users
+    Given the following users exist:
+      | Phone Number | Male | Female | Looking For Male | Looking For Female | Dob          | Looking For Minimum Age | Looking For Maximum Age | Description | Name  |
+      | 11111111111  | true | false  | false            | true               | 11/06/1989   | 18                      | 34                      | red hair    | Mike  |
+      | 12222222222  | true | false  | false            | true               | 10/20/1989   | 18                      | 34                      | black shirt | Jason |
+      | 18004688487  | false| true   | true             | false              | 12/31/1977   | 14                      | 22                      | super hot   | Emma  |
+      | 13333333333  | false| true   | true             | false              | 12/32/1980   | 14                      | 30                      | super hot   | Emma  |
+    And the day and time is "October 16, 2010 8:00pm edt"
+    And the following date suggestions exist:
+      | text             |
+      | Silvertone       |
+      | Mike's Apartment |
+    When I run the rake task "instalover:ping_female_dates"
+    Then "13333333333" should get a text whose message includes "Should we find you a date "
+    Then "18004688487" should get a text whose message includes "Should we find you a date "
+

features/step_definitions/rake_steps.rb

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+require 'rake'
+
+# Do not re-load the environment task
+class Rake::Task
+  def invoke_prerequisites(task_args, invocation_chain)
+    @prerequisites.reject{|n| n == "environment"}.each do |n|
+      prereq = application[n, @scope]
+      prereq_args = task_args.new_scope(prereq.arg_names)
+      prereq.invoke_with_call_chain(prereq_args, invocation_chain)
+    end
+  end
+end
+
+When /^I run the rake task "([^\"]*)"$/ do |task_name|
+  # Make sure you're in the RAILS_ROOT
+  oldpwd = Dir.pwd
+  Dir.chdir(RAILS_ROOT)
+  old_args = ARGV.dup
+  ARGV.clear
+
+  # Get an instance of rake
+  rake_app = Rake.application
+  rake_app.options.silent = true
+
+  # Back to where you were
+  Dir.chdir(oldpwd)
+
+  rake_app.init
+  rake_app.load_rakefile
+
+  task = rake_app.tasks.detect {|t| t.name == task_name}
+  assert_not_nil task, "No rake task defined: #{task_name}"
+  task.reenable
+  task.invoke
+
+  ARGV.unshift(*old_args)
+end
+

lib/tasks/instalover.rake

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+namespace :instalover do
+  desc "Ping women for dates to poke the pot"
+  task :ping_female_dates => :environment do
+    User.women.each do |w|
+      Message.handle_new_date(w)
+    end
+  end
+end