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How do I pass command line arguments to a rake task?

I've got a rake task that I am making that needs to insert a value into multiple databases. I'd like to be able to pass this value into the rake task from the command line, or from another rake ...
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How to run Rake tasks from within Rake tasks?

I have a Rakefile that compiles the project in two ways, according to the global variable $build_type, which can be :debug or :release (the results go in separate directories): task :build => ...
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Why does Ruby 1.9.2 remove “.” from LOAD_PATH, and what's the alternative?

The latest changesets to Ruby 1.9.2 no longer make the current directory . part of your LOAD_PATH. I have a non-trivial number of Rakefiles that assume that . is part of the LOAD_PATH, so this broke ...
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Rails Rake: How to pass in arguments to a task with :environment

So I am able to pass in arguments as follows desc "Testing args" task: :hello, :user, :message do |t, args| args.with_defaults(:message => "Thanks for logging on") puts "Hello #{args[:user]}. ...
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already activated rake error (when not using bundle exec)

This is kinda weird - i do not think i changed any code in this particular application (but i was working on another app and performing some gem updates there) When i started running the rake cron on ...
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How do I return early from a rake task?

I have a rake task where I do some checks at the beginning, if one of the checks fails I would like to return early from the rake task, I don't want to execute any of the remaining code. I thought ...
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Better ruby markdown interpreter?

I'm trying to find a markdown interpreter class/module that I can use in a rakefile. So far I've found maruku, but I'm a bit wary of beta releases. Has anyone had any issues with maruku? Or, do you ...
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How do I run a rake task from Capistrano?

I already have a deploy.rb that can deploy my app on my production server. My app contains a custom rake task (a .rake file in the lib/tasks directory). I'd like to create a cap task that will ...
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Rails task: script/runner or rake?

For ad hoc Rails tasks we have a few implementation alternatives, chief among which would seem to be script/runner some_useful_thing and rake some:other_useful_thing Which option should I ...
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Default task for namespace in Rake

Given something like: namespace :my_tasks do task :foo do do_something end task :bar do do_something_else end task :all => [:foo, :bar] end How do I make :all be the default ...
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How do I use “gets” on a rake task?

I get an error whenever I try to use the function gets within a rake task. Is there a way to make it work? The error says, "no such file or directory - (rake task name)"
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Why is rake db:migrate:reset not listed in rake -T?

Why are some rake tasks not listed by rake -T? Like db:migrate:reset? I can execute it without a problem, but why is it not listed there? Is there a way to get a real full list of rake tasks? % rake ...
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Rake “already initialized constant WFKV_” warning

Trying to run rake cucumber:ok and am getting this error: /Users/dev/.rbenv/versions/1.9.2-p290/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rack-1.3.4/lib/rack/backports/uri/common_192.rb:53: warning: already ...
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uninitialized constant Rake::DSL in Ruby Gem

I have been working on updating my gem (whm_xml at https://github.com/ivanoats/whm_xml_api_ruby ) to make it work with ruby 1.9.2, latest rubygems, latest bundler, latest rdoc, latest rake. It works ...
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Rake vs Thor for automation scripts?

I want to automate things like: Creating a new Rails app with pre-selected database, git initialize it, create heroku project, commit all files, etc. Upload all files in folder to another computer ...

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