Here's a monkey patch I found on a client project. What does it do? It takes up a day of a Rails developer's time. DONT DO THIS!

rake_task_patch.rb

# encoding: utf-8

require 'rake/task'

module Rake
  class Task
    alias :orig_execute :execute

    def execute(args=nil)
      orig_execute(args)
    rescue => e
    end
  end
end