Peter Fitzgibbons wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I have a rails app using legacy MSSQL db that is 1.5Gb... so running 
> :prepare_test_database on every test run is very very painful on 
> front-loaded processing time.
> In 0.13.1 I edited the rake tasks to make :test_units and 
> :test_functional depend only on :environment... I am responsible for 
> running :clone_to_test_db on my own.
> 
> How can I override the 0.14.2 rake tasks :test_units and 
> :test_functional in only my one project?
> 
> Thanks.

Hello,

I put the code at the bottom of this message into a new file named 
'lib/tasks/000_redefine_task.rake' and then I would create another file 
named 'lib/tasks/my_tests.rake' or something like that and does this:

redefine_task :test_units => :environment
Rake::TestTask.new(:test_units) do |t|
   t.libs << "test"
   t.pattern = 'test/unit/**/*_test.rb'
   t.verbose = true
end

redefine_task :test_units => ::environment
Rake::TestTask.new(:test_functional) do |t|
   t.libs << "test"
   t.pattern = 'test/functional/**/*_test.rb'
   t.verbose = true
end

BTW, if this doesn't work, you may need to apply this patch to RoR, 
which is now in trunk:

$ svn diff -r 2739:2740
Index: railties/lib/tasks/rails.rb
===================================================================
--- railties/lib/tasks/rails.rb (revision 2739)
+++ railties/lib/tasks/rails.rb (revision 2740)
@@ -4,5 +4,5 @@
  Dir["#{File.dirname(__FILE__)}/*.rake"].each { |ext| load ext }

  # Load any custom rakefile extensions
-Dir["./lib/tasks/**/*.rake"].each { |ext| load ext }
-Dir["./vendor/plugins/*/tasks/**/*.rake"].each { |ext| load ext }
\ No newline at end of file
+Dir["./lib/tasks/**/*.rake"].sort.each { |ext| load ext }
+Dir["./vendor/plugins/*/tasks/**/*.rake"].sort.each { |ext| load ext }
\ No newline at end of file

Regards,
Blair

-- 
Blair Zajac, Ph.D.
<blair@...>
Subversion and Orca training and consulting
http://www.orcaware.com/svn/

# Rake allows the same task name to be specified multiple times, where
# each successive task definition appends to a list of actions to
# perform.  Therefore, an application specific task cannot redefine a
# previously defined task.  These methods here allow tasks to be
# redefined and renamed.

module Rake
   class Task

     # Clear all existing actions for the given task and then set the
     # action for the task to the given block.
     def self.redefine_task(args, &block)
       task_name, deps = resolve_args(args)
       TASKS.delete(task_name.to_s)
       define_task(args, &block)
     end
   end
end

# Clear all existing actions for the given task and then set the
# action for the task to the given block.
def redefine_task(args, &block)
   Rake::Task.redefine_task(args, &block)
end

# Alias one task name to another task name.  This let's a following
# task rename the original task and still depend upon it.
def alias_task(new_name, old_name)
   Rake::Task::TASKS[new_name.to_s] = 
Rake::Task::TASKS.delete(old_name.to_s)
end