Notes:
Currently this works for me

$script/console
>require 'lib/crawler'
>crawl = Crawler.new
>crawl.pull_data

#/lib/crawler.rb
require 'scrubyt'
class Crawler
   def pull_data
      pages = Page.all
      ....shortened.....
   end

I created a rake file
require 'lib/bug'

namespace :bug do
  desc "crawl pages"
  task(:crawl => :environment) do

    #cant run because scrubyt can load from rake task
    crawler = Crawler.new
    crawler.pull_data

    #potential fix by loading via script rather than rake task
    #puts `ruby cl_pull_ads.rb`

  end
end

When I run rake task I get

stack level too deep
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/scrubyt-0.4.06/lib/scrubyt/utils/ruby_extensions.rb:66:in `write'

So works at console but not with rake task...
so I created a runner script but that did not work either

#crawl.rb

crawler = Crawler.new
crawler.pull_data

$script/runner crawl.rb

#only problem is now active record does not work
#so I updated it
require 'rubygems'
require 'active_record'
require 'lib/crawler'

ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(
  :adapter  => 'mysql',
  :database => '',
  :username => '',
  :password => '',
  :host     => 'localhost'
)
class Page < ActiveRecord::Base
end
x = Page.new
y Page.all

#returns
#/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.2/lib/active_record/attribute_methods.rb:260:in `method_missing': undefined method `all' for #<Page:0x19c2038> (NoMethodError)

#Summery
So basically when I try to run a ruby script from the command line rails and activerecord is deprecited unless I run it from rake.. but when I run the script from rake scrubyt die with stack problem...

how can I get a full rails stack loaded and not use rake?

Thanks!!!