What's the 'environment' task in Rake?

Question

According to \"Custom Rake Tasks\":

desc \"Pick a random user as the winner\"
task :winner => :environment do
  puts \"Winner: #{pick(User).name}\"
end
         


        

Answer 1

You can get access to your models, and in fact, your whole environment by making tasks dependent on the environment task. This lets you do things like run rake RAILS_ENV=staging db:migrate.

See "Custom Rake Tasks".