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Hello all, I''ve been doing quite a bit of rooting around the plugin system recently, and one thing in particularly has me puzzled and bemused. At the moment, the test:plugins task has a dependency on the :environment task, thus loading up Rails in all it''s resplendent glory. Once it''s done this it uses Rake::TestTask to load the tests for every plugin. However, because of the way that Rake::TestTask works (loading a new Ruby interpreter which churns through the test cases), the Rails environment is never actually made available to any plugins. If a...