How to pass command line arguments to a rake task

Question

I have a rake task that needs to insert a value into multiple databases.

I\'d like to pass this value into the rake task from the command line, or from another

Answer 1

Actually @Nick Desjardins answered perfect. But just for education: you can use dirty approach: using ENV argument

task :my_task do
  myvar = ENV['myvar']
  puts "myvar: #{myvar}"
end 

rake my_task myvar=10
#=> myvar: 10