Here's what the default Rails 3 Rakefile looks like: require File.expand_path('../config/application', __FILE__) MyApp::Application.load_tasks
This does the following: * Loads my Rails application. This takes around 15 seconds. Most of this time is spent on the `Bundler.require`; Rails itself loads within a second or two. * Loads any Rake tasks from my gems. * Loads any Rake tasks from my lib/tasks directory. How do I write a Rakefile that only does steps 2 and 3, but not step 1 (unless I go the usual route and specify the `:environment` task)? What would be even better is if I could explicitly require what's needed for each gem's Rake tasks, so that if I don't want to use them, I don't have to load them. (This was the behavior in Rails 2.) In short, I don't want "rake foo" to try to load the Rails environment, unless "foo" actually depends on the environment being present. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.