additional action or testing parameters in rake files

gistfile1.rb

desc 'create a test file to see if cron is working'
task :create_test_file, [:push] do |t, args|
  if(args.push)
    puts "push provided"
  end
  File.open("out.txt", 'w') {|f| f.write("This is a test file") }  
end