Rails: rake task with arguments not working

Question

Here is my rake task

namespace :users do
  task :change_role, [:role] => :environment do |t, args|
    puts args.role
  end
end

I am calling it like this:

rake users:change_role["role"] but I am getting this error no matches found: users:change_role["role"]

Answer 1

You need to escape the square brackets when using them in some shells like zsh:

rake users:change_role\["role"\]

Answer 2

Put the rake task in single quotes.

rake 'users:change_role["role"]'

more on https://thoughtbot.com/blog/how-to-use-arguments-in-a-rake-task

Answer 3

You can add unsetopt nomatch to your .zshrc file, as Chad Pytel describes in here

Answer 4

@infused way works, but if you want change to be permanent, so you can simply call rake users:change_roles["hello"], add following to your .zshrc:

alias rake='noglob rake'