A collection of useful rake tasks that doesn't deserve real source control

tasks.rake

namespace :db do
  
  desc "Fetches records from the database and prints their attributes" 
  task :fetch, [:model, :conditions] => :environment do |t, args|
    args.with_defaults(:conditions => "id = (SELECT MIN(id) from #{args.model.tableize})")
    klass = args.model.classify.constantize
    finder = (args.model.pluralize == args.model ? :all : :first)
    records = klass.send(finder, :conditions => args.conditions)
    puts records.to_yaml
  end
  
end