Rails.root is Empty in Custom Rake Task in Rails 3.0

Question

Maybe I missed this in the upgrade documentation, but if I output "Rails.root" in the rails console I see my app's root path. But if I reference "Rails.root" in a custom Rake task, it's empty. What am I missing? Thanks in advance.

Sample:

namespace :admin do
    desc "Import some data"
    task :import => :environment do
        csv = Rails.root + "/test/data.csv"
        raise "#{csv} does not exit. Stopping task." if !File.exists?(csv)

        CSV.foreach(csv, :headers => :first_row) do |row|
            puts(row['id'])
        end
    end
end

I get an exception every time because "Rails.root" is "".

Answer 1

Try with join method

csv = Rails.root.join('test/data.csv')

csv become a Pathname of your file.

Answer 2

For reference:

Rails.root + "test/data.csv" 

will work as well, it's the leading slash that screws things up.

"#{Rails.root}/test/data.csv"

also works (you actually need the "leading" slash there).