pertsevds
How to execute custom task in mix releases step?
In mix.exs:
releases: [
myapp: [
overwrite: true,
include_executables_for: [:unix],
steps: [:assemble, Mix.Task.run("mytask"), :tar]
]
]
Results in
** (Mix.NoTaskError) The task "mytask" could not be found
error.
But the mix mytask works fine.
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hubertlepicki
I don’t know but I am calling a function in my steps this way:
and then I have
defp copy_datadog_files(release) do ...inmix.exsfile that defines such function. I guess you can execute Mix task from that function too, but I never tried it or know if there’s better waybenwilson512
Mix.task.run("mytask")tries to literally run the task at that very moment. It doesn’t return a value that is then added as a step.pertsevds
I’ve moved it to function and it worked.
Thank you!
pertsevds
And thank you for your advice. Now I got it.
If I could, I would mark your post as a solution too