detecting rake db:migrate ?

rubyonrails-talk
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Hi group,

I have a line of code in environment.rb that cannot be run during a rake db:migrate, as it depends on some tables being present.

I need to find a way to enclose this line in a check for db:migrate. I know how to check if we're in a rake task with:

unless defined?(Rake)   # do stuff, but skip when run from rake tasks end

How can I take this further to make check if I'm running the rake db:migrate task?

Thanks,

-H

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Excuse me, the code I need to wrap around the check is on ApplicationController. Still, any ideas?

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There is a model class method like table_exists? That you can use to
check ifthe table exists and then only run the code if it does

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Thanks! That would work, for now.

I still have the itch though. If anyone knows, do tell.

Thanks again, -H