Run rake task from outside RAILS_ROOT

Question

My RAILS_ROOT is /usr/local/www/application/

If I run 'rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=production" from within the RAILS_ROOT it works fine.

However I can't seem to find a way to run the same command from outside the RAILS_ROOT.

Answer 1

Try:

rake -f $RAILS_ROOT/Rakefile db:migrate RAILS_ENV=production
# Assuming you set the environment variable. 
# Else, just replace $RAILS_ROOT by actual value