The infrastructure needed to support the movement of rake tasks to the rails command is now in place. This paves the way to make it easier to learn commands for persons new to Rails.
If a database default was specified for the type column used in Single Table Inheritance (STI), it did not cast new instances to default type on initialize. This is now fixed.
This simple refactor utilizes the respond_to_missing? hook introduced in Ruby 1.9. This prevents the usage of the method method from raising a NameError.