James Edward Gray II wrote: > Sure you can. Just introduce a little pragmatic namespacing: > > rake com RAKE_MSG="This is my log message" Hmm... maybe. Think I'll just use a single env var and parse that I guess: rake com RAKEOPTS="This is my log message" in my case rake sign RAKEOPTS="--digest=sha256" personally, it would cooler if Rake took some of Ara's kung-fu and used someting like a - to separate task from options. T.