Can rake tasks take paramaters?

Yes,

task :my_task do   puts ENV['MESSAGE'] end

rake my_task MESSAGE=Testing

-Shawn

Shawn Roske wrote:

task :my_task do   puts ENV['MESSAGE'] end

rake my_task MESSAGE=Testing

One might even shortcut that, for svn commits:

task :ci => [:test] do    system("svn ci -m=#{ENV['m']}") end

rake ci m='what we did'