starting rails in test environment

Question

I\'m trying to load up rails in the test environment using a ruby script. I\'ve tried googling a bit and found this recommendation:

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Answer 1

You know you can run your unit, functional and integration tests from Rake, right ? Check out the output of rake -T test to see how.

In case you need something more custom, you can create your own Rake task. Put something like this in a file in lib/tasks:

namespace :custom_tests do
  desc "Run my custom tests"
  task :run => :environment do
    puts "RAILS_ENV is #{RAILS_ENV}"
    system "execute mysql script here"
    # Do whatever you need to do
  end
end

The => :environment loads the current environment for you. Then, you can run your task in the test environment like this: RAILS_ENV=test rake custom_tests:run