code crumbs

I just converted a website from the openid_consumer plugin to DHH’s open_id_authentication plugin and patched it for OpenId 2.0.
I found face’s port of Dr. Nic’s sample open_id_authentication app to be a useful starting point. I ended up chopping down the open_id_helpers class to this:
module OpenIdsHelper
# Pass optional :required and :optional keys to […]

1) Require rake and load the rake files containing the tasks and dependencies you want to run:
require ‘rake’
load File.dirname(__FILE__) + ‘/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/tasks/misc.rake’
load File.dirname(__FILE__) + ‘/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/tasks/databases.rake’
2) invoke the task
Rake::Task[”db:test:prepare”].invoke

class << self
alias_method :new_do_thing, :old_do_thing
end

Now I know.