unnecessarily loading environment

I found this by putting print "loading environment" at the top of config/environment.rb

Wondering if anyone can confirm that rake tasks are loading the environment multiple times.

I can't seem to confirm this.

I generated a fresh Rails app from rails/master (at 296ca4da1700eb27a7043112d22027444ea0e548), and vendor'd rails. I stuck a puts in environment.rb, and all rake tasks that required the environment only seemed to print it once:

chrisk@al3:~/Documents/railstest/testapp $ rake db:version
(in /Users/chrisk/Documents/railstest/testapp)
*** initializing Rails
Current version: 0
chrisk@al3:~/Documents/railstest/testapp $ 

Also, the whole point of require is that it'll only load a file once... Kernel#load is the one that mindlessly loads things again when you specify it twice.

So, can you post a step-by-step process to reproduce? We must be doing something different.

Thanks!

require will load the same library twice if you provide a different path to the same file, eg, require 'config/environment' and require "#{RAILS_ROOT}/config/environment"

Though I duplicated your setup with a fresh install and couldn't replicate the problem. I'll try to isolate it in my project and see what's happening.

I found an environment require in a task I didn't need, and the rest of the duplicate loads are related to rspec, so I'll just close this ticket.