Hi Tony,

you’re right that boards are not yet contained in the APIv3 yet. To access it programatically, you don’t need a rake task to do that. You can execute a one-shot command with rails runner:

bundle exec rails runner "Message.create! board_id: "<id of the board you're submitting a message>, subject: 'My subject', content: 'My content'

Message.create! will raise an error to STDERR if if cannot save your message. It also sets the exit code to 1.

Best,
Oliver

Cheers for the reply, good to know it can be done this way.

After a little playing around with rvm to squish a couple of versioning errors, the command returns:

(erb):1:in `fetch’: Cannot load `Rails.application.database_configuration`: (KeyError)
key not found: “DATABASE_URL”

Any ideas?

It doesn’t find your database settings.

You may need to prefix this with your environment that you’re running on. For example

RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rails runner "Message.create! board_id: "<id of the board you're submitting a message>, subject: 'My subject', content: 'My content'

Best,
Oliver

That’s working now, much appreciated.

Can replies be added using something similar?