Rakefile for Sinatra

Rakefile.rb

require 'rubygems'
require 'active_record'
require 'yaml'
require 'rake'

def initialize_active_record
 config = YAML::load(IO.read(File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/database.yml'))
 ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(config['development'])
 ActiveRecord::Base.default_timezone = :utc
end

initialize_active_record

namespace :db do
desc "MIGRATE"
 task :migrate do
  ActiveRecord::Base.logger = Logger.new(STDOUT)
  ActiveRecord::Migration.verbose = true
  ActiveRecord::Migrator.migrate("db/migrate")
 end
end