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Rake tasks suffer from the same problem as running tests: the Rails bootup process takes a long time before the task is even running.

Is there a way to integrate spork and rake together?

matthuhiggins
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  • I added my own answer below for zeus (https://github.com/burke/zeus). There is also the rails/command gem that DHH is working on (https://github.com/rails/commands). – matthuhiggins Jan 09 '13 at 16:48

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You can use the irake gem which makes it possible to execute rake tasks from the console.

Add this to Gemfile:

gem 'irake'

Then bundle and start console

$ bundle install
$ rails console

...and wait for the Rails environment to load (only once). Then you can do:

rake "db:migrate"

If you want to list tasks, you can:

Rake::Task.tasks.each{|t| puts t.name }; nil
Bernát
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I discovered zeus today. It's the best thing ever, so I'm changing my answer to zeus:

https://github.com/burke/zeus

zeus rake my:special:task

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rake test:units
testdrb -I test/ test/unit/

rake test:functionals
testdrb -I test/ test/functional/

rake test:integration
testdrb -I test/ test/integration/
Ery
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There is no standard out of the box solution as i know.

Rake does not have --drb option and spork can't help here. Sure, custom solution is possible. This will require extension of rake runner.

I think rake tasks run not so often as tests, that why question is not addressed yet.

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  • Thanks. I basically want something like spin (https://github.com/jstorimer/spin), which forks a loaded Rails process and all the gems. – matthuhiggins Dec 28 '11 at 21:53