hello
is it possible to access methods I add to my models from a rake task?
adding “=> :environment” seem to enable only the methods defined in
ActiveRecord::Base. Calling other methods results in:
undefined method `mehodname’ for ModelName
There’s probably something else going on.
To quote:
http://www.railsenvy.com/2007/6/11/ruby-on-rails-rake-tutorial#rails_models
Can you access your models in a rake task? Very Yes! 
Are you mixing up class and instance methods?
-Danimal
you were right,
I am new to ruby so I was not correctly declaring methods
thanks for pointing me to class and instance methods
that knowledge seemed to do the trick