A while ago I wrote that Merb reads in custom rake tasks in lib/tasks/*.rake. This doesn’t appear to be the case anymore, at least not the last few times I tried. The latest commits of Merb core have a Rakefile with the friendly reminder to put custom rake tasks at the bottom of it. I’m not sure if this was in the interests of lightness, feature creep reduction, or what. Additionally, feel free to correct me if I’m doing it wrong or forgetting some setting or something.