Load application specific rake tasks in the application object

railties/lib/rails/application.rb

@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ module Rails
 
       def load_tasks
         require "rails/tasks"
+        Dir["#{root}/vendor/plugins/*/**/tasks/**/*.rake"].sort.each { |ext| load ext }
+        Dir["#{root}/lib/tasks/**/*.rake"].sort.each { |ext| load ext }
         task :environment do
           $rails_rake_task = true
           initialize!

railties/lib/rails/tasks.rb

@@ -16,8 +16,3 @@ $VERBOSE = nil
 ).each do |task|
   load "rails/tasks/#{task}.rake"
 end
-
-# Load any custom rakefile extensions
-# TODO: Don't hardcode these paths.
-Dir["#{Rails.root}/vendor/plugins/*/**/tasks/**/*.rake"].sort.each { |ext| load ext }
-Dir["#{Rails.root}/lib/tasks/**/*.rake"].sort.each { |ext| load ext }