How to pass command line arguments to a rake task

Question

I have a rake task that needs to insert a value into multiple databases.

I\'d like to pass this value into the rake task from the command line, or from another

Answer 1

desc 'an updated version'
task :task_name, [:arg1, :arg2] => [:dependency1, :dependency2] do |t, args|
    puts args[:arg1]
end