# Test unit results display for every rake task **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [August 19, 2010, 12:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/test-unit-results-display-for-every-rake-task/193542 "2010-08-19T12:39:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Stewart](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/90db22/32.png) [@Stewart](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Stewart)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 12:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/test-unit-results-display-for-every-rake-task/193542/1 "2010-08-19T12:39:35Z")
I have not noticed this before but its a little strage. Every time I run a rake task the results of a test suite are displayed. EG ~/Documents/City Uni Work/Final Project/code/server (master)$ rake db:drop (in /Users/stewartmatheson/Documents/City Uni Work/Final Project/code/ server) Loaded suite /Users/stewartmatheson/rails3install/bin/rake Started Finished in 0.000193 seconds. 0 tests, 0 assertions, 0 failures, 0 errors Strange right… I decided to roll a testapp to make sure it was not something to do with my rails installation. Its not. ~/code/rails/testapp $ rake db:create (in /Users/stewartmatheson/code/rails/testapp) testapp\_development already exists ~/code/rails/testapp $ rake db:migrate (in /Users/stewartmatheson/code/rails/testapp) ~/code/rails/testapp $ rake test:units (in /Users/stewartmatheson/code/rails/testapp) ~/code/rails/testapp $ Does anyone have any idea why each rake task is loading test::unit ? Not a biggie but just had me a bit puzzled. ---
**Author:** ![Stewart](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/90db22/32.png) [@Stewart](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Stewart)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 3:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/test-unit-results-display-for-every-rake-task/193542/2 "2010-08-19T15:18:16Z")
You’re loading the test environment. Somewhere you have RAILS\_ENV=test or ENV[“RAILS\_ENV”] = “test” or it’s been exported to your shell environment for some reason. Jason ---
**Author:** ![Stewart](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/90db22/32.png) [@Stewart](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Stewart)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 3:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/test-unit-results-display-for-every-rake-task/193542/3 "2010-08-19T15:32:50Z")
Stewart wrote: > I have not noticed this before but its a little strage. Every time I > run a rake task the results of a test suite are displayed. EG > > Does anyone have any idea why each rake task is loading test::unit ? > Not a biggie but just had me a bit puzzled. When you start your console does it tell you “Loading test environment”? And if so, interesting that you’ve been able to develop / test at all without some major issues. As Jason mentioned it seems like ENV set. Does echo RAILS\_ENV yield anything?