I'm desperately seeking a way to force delete some partially deleted (pending_delete?) projects in my gitlab server. I've found my way here. Can you shed some light on how to run this ruby script against my local gitlab DB? Thanks

You should be able to run this script via sudo gitlab-rails runner /path/to/script.rb.

Be sure to make a full backup before you do.

We have an install of Gitlab running in a Docker container. I'm trying to run this script with the following command;

sudo docker exec -t gitlab gitlab-rails runner clean_projects.rb

But it's giving me the error;

/opt/gitlab/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/railties-4.2.8/lib/rails/commands/runner.rb:62:in <top (required)>': undefined local variable or method clean_projects' for main:Object (NameError)

Is this not the correct way to run the script for a Docker instance? Thanks.

My bad. I had to copy the script into the Docker container. To do that i just copied it to temp;

sudo docker cp clean_projects.rb gitlab:/tmp

And then run the gitlab-rails runner with the path /tmp/clean_projects.rb

How long should this process take? When i run the script i see;

Remove *** (ID: 72)? (y/n): y Removing project team... Unlinking fork... Removing project...

So far ( > 2 hours ) it seems to be stuck on the 'Removing project' stage