# Interactive Rake Tasks **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [August 12, 2008, 5:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/interactive-rake-tasks/145661 "2008-08-12T17:43:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sjmadsen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@sjmadsen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sjmadsen)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2008, 5:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/interactive-rake-tasks/145661/1 "2008-08-12T17:43:06Z")
Anyone have a guide or a good example gem/rake task that prompts the user for input and does logic based on it? I want to write an interactive installer for a plugin. ---
**Author:** ![sjmadsen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@sjmadsen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sjmadsen)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2008, 7:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/interactive-rake-tasks/145661/2 "2008-08-12T19:34:12Z")
Steve M. wrote: > Anyone have a guide or a good example gem/rake task that prompts the > user for input and does logic based on it? > > I want to write an interactive installer for a plugin. Might be overkill but Radiant CMS has a task called rake dn:bootstrap that asks some questions at the end. Would that help? Cheers, Mohit. 8/13/2008 | 1:30 AM. ---
**Author:** ![sjmadsen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@sjmadsen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sjmadsen)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2008, 7:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/interactive-rake-tasks/145661/3 "2008-08-12T19:39:30Z")
Mohit S. wrote: > Steve M. wrote: > > > Anyone have a guide or a good example gem/rake task that prompts the > > user for input and does logic based on it? > > > > I want to write an interactive installer for a plugin. > > Might be overkill but Radiant CMS has a task called rake dn:bootstrap > that asks some questions at the end. Would that help? Looking through the source for Radiant shows that you should see: [http://dev.radiantcms.org/browser/trunk/radiant/lib/tasks/database.rake](http://dev.radiantcms.org/browser/trunk/radiant/lib/tasks/database.rake) which connects to: [http://dev.radiantcms.org/browser/trunk/radiant/lib/radiant/setup.rb](http://dev.radiantcms.org/browser/trunk/radiant/lib/radiant/setup.rb) Hope this helps. Cheers, Mohit. 8/13/2008 | 1:38 AM. ---
**Author:** ![sjmadsen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@sjmadsen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sjmadsen)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2008, 7:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/interactive-rake-tasks/145661/4 "2008-08-12T19:49:28Z")
Thanks Mohit, that helps, I see the ask and agree methods there, I should be able to follow from here. Steve ---
**Author:** ![sjmadsen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@sjmadsen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sjmadsen)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2008, 8:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/interactive-rake-tasks/145661/5 "2008-08-12T20:46:24Z")
[http://highline.rubyforge.org/doc/](http://highline.rubyforge.org/doc/) ---
**Author:** ![sjmadsen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@sjmadsen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sjmadsen)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2008, 9:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/interactive-rake-tasks/145661/6 "2008-08-12T21:55:03Z")
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 2:43 PM, d c [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > [http://highline.rubyforge.org/doc/](http://highline.rubyforge.org/doc/) Second this. – Avdi Home: [http://avdi.org](http://avdi.org) Developer Blog: [Avdi Grimm, Code Cleric](http://avdi.org/devblog/) Twitter: [http://twitter.com/avdi](http://twitter.com/avdi) Journal: [http://avdi.livejournal.com](http://avdi.livejournal.com) ---
**Author:** ![sjmadsen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@sjmadsen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sjmadsen)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2008, 9:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/interactive-rake-tasks/145661/7 "2008-08-12T21:59:14Z")
It looks like the radiant tasks I looked at were using highline, this is perfect, thanks. Avdi G. wrote: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 2:43 PM, d c [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > [http://highline.rubyforge.org/doc/](http://highline.rubyforge.org/doc/) > > Second this. > > – > Avdi > > Home: [http://avdi.org](http://avdi.org) > Developer Blog: [Avdi Grimm, Code Cleric](http://avdi.org/devblog/) > Twitter: [http://twitter.com/avdi](http://twitter.com/avdi) > Journal: [http://avdi.livejournal.com](http://avdi.livejournal.com)