rake task to clobber local rails resources with prod data via REST

task :bail do
  hostname = `hostname`.to_s.strip
  if hostname == 'prodsite.ca'
    puts "this task cannot be run from this host (#{hostname})"
    exit 
  end
end

desc "pull data from production server"
namespace :resources do

  task :clobber => [:environment, :bail] do
  class Canonical < ActiveResource::Base
    website = "http://www.prodsite.ca/"
    puts "#{website} user:"
    user = STDIN.gets.chomp
    puts "#{user}'s password:"
    password = STDIN.gets.chomp

    self.site = website
    self.user = user
    self.password = password
  end

  resources = %w(foos bars bazes)
  resources.each do |resource|
    puts resource
    ActiveRecord::Base.connection.execute("TRUNCATE #{resource}")
    collection = Canonical.find(:all, :from => "/#{resource}.xml")
    collection.each {|m|
      id = m.attributes.delete('id')
      member = resource.classify.constantize.new(m.attributes)
      member.id = id
      member.save
    }
  end

end