How do I run a Ruby file in a Rails environment?

Question

I want to run a Ruby file in the context of a Rails environment. rails runner almost does what I want to do, but I\'d like to just give it the file name and arguments. I\'m

Answer 1

Simply require environment.rb in your script. If your script is located in the script directory of your Rails app do

require File.expand_path('../../config/environment', __FILE__)

You can control the environment used (development/test/production) by setting the RAILS_ENV environment variable when running the script.

RAILS_ENV=production ruby script/test.rb