How do I force RAILS_ENV in a rake task?

Question

I have this little rake task:

namespace :db do 
  namespace :test do 
    task :reset do 
      ENV[\'RAILS_ENV\'] = \"test\" 
      Rake::Task[\'db:drop\']         


        

Answer 1

Another option is to check the env and refuse to continue:

unless Rails.env.development?
  puts "This task can only be run in development environment"
  exit
end

or ask if they really want to continue:

unless Rails.env.development?
  puts "You are using #{Rails.env} environment, are you sure? y/n"
  continue = STDIN.gets.chomp
  exit unless continue == 'y'
end