Rake tasks suffer from the same problem as running tests: the Rails bootup process takes a long time before the task is even running.
Is there a way to integrate spork and rake together?
Rake tasks suffer from the same problem as running tests: the Rails bootup process takes a long time before the task is even running.
Is there a way to integrate spork and rake together?
You can use the irake gem which makes it possible to execute rake tasks from the console.
Add this to Gemfile:
gem 'irake'
Then bundle and start console
$ bundle install
$ rails console
...and wait for the Rails environment to load (only once). Then you can do:
rake "db:migrate"
If you want to list tasks, you can:
Rake::Task.tasks.each{|t| puts t.name }; nil
I discovered zeus today. It's the best thing ever, so I'm changing my answer to zeus:
https://github.com/burke/zeus
zeus rake my:special:task
rake test:units
testdrb -I test/ test/unit/
rake test:functionals
testdrb -I test/ test/functional/
rake test:integration
testdrb -I test/ test/integration/
There is no standard out of the box solution as i know.
Rake does not have --drb option and spork can't help here. Sure, custom solution is possible. This will require extension of rake runner.
I think rake tasks run not so often as tests, that why question is not addressed yet.