How can I tell if Rails code is being run via rake or script/generate?

Question

I\'ve got a plugin that is a bit heavy-weight. (Bullet, configured with Growl notifications.) I\'d like to not enable it if I\'m just running a rake task or a generator, since i

Answer 1

It's as simple as that:

if $rails_rake_task
  puts 'Guess what, I`m running from Rake'
else
  puts 'No; this is not a Rake task'
end

Rails 4+

Instead of $rails_rake_task, use:

File.basename($0) == 'rake'