Is neo4j-rake_tasks useful for production?

[ProGM]

I'm doing a few benchmarks for my app using derailed gem.

I noticed that neo4j is including neo4j-rake_tasks, that is useful for development, but I don't think it's very useful for production environment. Is there any way to exclude it?

I tried:

gem 'neo4j-rake_tasks', require: false, group: :production

But... well. It was not a great idea :laughing:

[cheerfulstoic]

Can you just do this?

gem 'neo4j-rake_tasks', group: [:development, :test]

Bundler should only auto-require for the environment's gems, I think

[ProGM]

I tried, but derailed says that it's still required. :
I think bundler is ignoring me, since neo4j-rake_tasks is an explicit dipendence ...

[cheerfulstoic]

Oh, right, yeah, it probably is because neo4j-core depends on it...

Perhaps we should make neo4j-rake_tasks be an explicit dependency of apps. We could remove it as a dependency of neo4j-core, though we'd probably want to give a deprecation warning first. And/or maybe when we remove it we could temporarily create rake tasks in neo4j-core (which neo4j-rake_tasks would override) which just output a message about how you now need to require the gem explicitly and providing an example of how to do it just in development / test

Pinging @subvertallchris for an additional opinion

[jorroll]

I think closed by https://github.com/neo4jrb/neo4j-core/commit/4ac9a4156eaad06b3b11c29f7d6a33d1c4c1683c

[cheerfulstoic]

Yep, absolutely, thanks @thefliik ! neo4j-rake_tasks is no longer a depedency of neo4j-core

As @ProGM said, neo4j-rake_tasks is not a good idea for production (and that's mentioned in the docs in at least a couple of places, I think). It's primarily for development and test, though in the past six months Neo4j, Inc has released the Neo4j Desktop app which is a great way to manage multiple Neo4j servers, so I'm starting to think that neo4j-rake_tasks should be deprecated entirely.