reading a file from inside a rake task

output.txt

$ be rake read_file
"---\nstuff: this is some stuff\n  and:\n  - this\n  - is\n  - some\n  - nonesense\nooerr: Hi, Mate!\n"

Rails.root-db-data.yml

---
stuff: this is some stuff
  and:
  - this
  - is
  - some
  - nonesense
ooerr: Hi, Mate!

read_file.rake

desc "read a file inside rake"
task :read_file do |t|
  path = File.join(Rails.root,"db","data.yml")
  puts File.open(path).read.inspect
end