Does rake task limit functionality of my class to call external API? - ruby-on-rails

Question

AllegroAPI is a class in the /models directory that calls an external API. It works as I wish when I test in somewhere else not by running rake task.
Example working code:
require "./AllegroAPI"
allegro = AllegroAPI.new(login: 'LOGIN',
password: File.read('XXXX.txt'),
webapikey: File.read('XXX.txt')
)
puts allegro.do_search({"search-string"=>"nokia",
"search-price-from"=>300.0,
"search-price-to"=>500.0,
"search-limit"=>50}).to_s
As I've said it works correctly. It calls the API and prints out the result.
File allegro.rb is also in the models directory and it's a file I'm executing by running this task:
namespace :data do
desc "Update auctions table in database"
task update_auctions: :environment do
Allegro.check_for_new_auctions
end
end
allegro.rb:
module Allegro
require 'AllegroAPI'
def self.check_for_new_auctions
allegro = AllegroAPI.new(login: 'LOGIN',
password: File.read('app/models/ignore/XXXX.txt'),
webapikey: File.read('app/models/ignore/XXX.txt')
)
looks = Look.all
looks.each do |l|
hash_to_ask = ActiveSupport::JSON.decode(l[:look_query]).symbolize_keys
hash_to_ask = hash_to_ask.each_with_object({}) do |(k,v), h|
if v.is_number?
h[k.to_s.split('_').join('-')] = v.to_f
else
h[k.to_s.split('_').join('-')] = v
end
end
results = allegro.do_search(hash_to_ask)
#do something with data
end
end
end
The problem is that it doesn't return anything. var result is not nil, but it does not hold anything.
When I'm trying to debug it and call API from the inside do_search function it's calling API, doesn't raise a error but response is nothing. AllegroAPI works correctly. There is no problem with var "hash_to_ask", it's exactly the same hash as in working example.
EDIT:
I've commented out check_for_new_auctions and used "puts", it works fine when I run it by executing rake task. Then I've used exactly the same code which I used in normal file which have ran properly:
class Allegro
def self.check_for_new_auctions
allegro = AllegroAPI.new(login: 'LOGIN',
password: File.read('app/models/ignore/XXXX.txt'),
webapikey: File.read('app/models/ignore/XXXX.txt')
)
hash_to_ask = {"search-string"=>"nokia",
"search-price-from"=>300.0,
"search-price-to"=>500.0,
"search-limit"=>50}
allegro.do_search(hash_to_ask).to_s
end
end
It have not worked;/ The returned value from allegro.do_search(hash_to_ask) is hash, not empty, not nil but when I try to print it, it's nothing, empty place.
EDIT:
Everything have worked properly, waste like 15 hours total debugging the problem which have not existed. I'm not sure why it have not worked but it couldn't print to the console after converting to string, so I tried writing it down to file blindly. What I have found in the text file? Data.
I don't know why it couldn't print out everything in the console.

Answer 1

In the IRB script that you show, you have some puts statement that is not in your rake task. So for debugging, I would add puts ... to your Rake task, e.g.:
namespace :data do
desc "Update auctions table in database"
task update_auctions: :environment do
puts "Start Auctions..."
results = Allegro.check_for_new_auctions
puts "Results: #{results}"
end
end
Now, when you run:
rake data:update_auctions
You should get some output. Otherwise rinse-and-repeat by adding puts statements in the method that you are calling.