Rake Instead of Rails

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jsblogger_advanced$ rake generate model Moderator username:string
      invoke  active_record
      create    db/migrate/20120322145332_create_moderators.rb
      create    app/models/moderator.rb
      invoke    rspec
      create      spec/models/moderator_spec.rb
jsblogger_advanced$ rake destroy model Moderator
      invoke  active_record
      remove    db/migrate/20120322145332_create_moderators.rb
      remove    app/models/moderator.rb
      invoke    rspec
      remove      spec/models/moderator_spec.rb
jsblogger_advanced$ rake server
=> Booting WEBrick
=> Rails 3.2.1 application starting in development on http://0.0.0.0:3000
=> Call with -d to detach
=> Ctrl-C to shutdown server
[2012-03-22 10:53:51] INFO  WEBrick 1.3.1
[2012-03-22 10:53:51] INFO  ruby 1.9.2 (2012-02-14) [x86_64-darwin11.3.0]
[2012-03-22 10:53:51] INFO  WEBrick::HTTPServer#start: pid=14209 port=3000
^C[2012-03-22 10:53:53] INFO  going to shutdown ...
[2012-03-22 10:53:53] INFO  WEBrick::HTTPServer#start done.
Exiting
jsblogger_advanced$ rake console
Loading development environment (Rails 3.2.1)
1.9.2-p318 :001 > exit
jsblogger_advanced$ 

Rakefile

#!/usr/bin/env rake
# Add your own tasks in files placed in lib/tasks ending in .rake,
# for example lib/tasks/capistrano.rake, and they will automatically be available to Rake.

require File.expand_path('../config/application', __FILE__)

JsbloggerCodemash::Application.load_tasks

[:generate, :destroy, :server, :console].each do |command|
  desc "Proof-of-concept proxy to the rails CLI"
  task command do
    system("rails #{command} #{ARGV[1..-1].join(' ')}")
    exit
  end
end

It does feel arbitrary that I start a server with rails server but I migrate the database my server depends on with rake db:migrate. I'm in favor.