Question

I’m not sure the “right” way to do this, so I wanted to ask the community. Probably a simple question.

I have a file “dbutils.rb” that I want to automatically include to have available whenever I run a “rake db:migrate”, without putting it in application.rb and without putting it in every single db migration.

Where would I put my require to make this happen?

Answer 1

Rails defines $rails_rake_task = true in the :environment task.

The :environment task again is always loaded when you run :migrate (it is loaded for other Rake tasks also). You could use this to add require "dbutils" to your environment.rb when $rails_rake_task is true. And skip loading otherwise.

The other option is a custom Rake task like fl00r suggested.