How to create and run a custom task on a server in Phoenix? Manually and once, that is. In Ruby I’d use rake my_test_task

@NobbZ already provided you great answers, but please take a look on this article . Basically it’s very easy. Also you have to remember that whenever you would like to use any application, which is project dependency, in the mix task, you have to use ensure_started/2 , example of using Repo is also h…

Have you tried to run a task on a server this way?

This is how you run a mix task. If it doesn’t work, please tell us more about your environment. If by server you mean a computer that runs a release, build for production without mix Bering bundled then of course you can’t run mix tasks. For such scenarios you need to create escripts that connect t…

[image] NobbZ: If by server you mean a computer that runs a release, build for production without mix Bering bundled then of course you can’t run mix tasks. server = production server where my website runs How exactly should I create a task for a production server ?

So you are running a release there? As I said, write maintenance functions, connect via remote shell and then run the functions. Mix is usually not available on those systems, since it is a build tool and on the prod you usually do not build.

[image] NobbZ: write maintenance functions, connect via remote shell and then run the functions. yes my question is - how exactly?

It depends of the release tool you’ll use. When using distillery, you have to live without mix at all. Consider this example for replacing Repo migrations.

I didn’t say “migrations”. I said - task. I want to login to my server via ssh and run a task in the terminal, the same way I’d do in ruby – “rake my_task”

It was an example :wink: You can do it as we already explained you how, just make sure that any part of your app that you want to use, it’s started.

rake is a ruby tool and independant from phoenix, elixir or whatnot. If you want to use rake you need to install it. If though you want to run maintanance functions, then just create them in your application, eg: defmodule MyApp.Maintanance do def foo(), do: :bar end Remote-Shell into your app: …