diff --git a/railties/lib/rails/commands/runner/runner_command.rb b/railties/lib/rails/commands/runner/runner_command.rb
index 27666c76b7..4989a7837d 100644
--- a/railties/lib/rails/commands/runner/runner_command.rb
+++ b/railties/lib/rails/commands/runner/runner_command.rb
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ module Rails
         "#{super} [<'Some.ruby(code)'> | <filename.rb>]"
       end
 
-      def perform(code_or_file = nil)
+      def perform(code_or_file = nil, *file_argv)
         unless code_or_file
           help
           exit 1
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ module Rails
 
         if File.exist?(code_or_file)
           $0 = code_or_file
+          ARGV.replace(file_argv)
           Kernel.load code_or_file
         else
           begin
diff --git a/railties/test/application/runner_test.rb b/railties/test/application/runner_test.rb
index 8769703f66..7d058f6ee6 100644
--- a/railties/test/application/runner_test.rb
+++ b/railties/test/application/runner_test.rb
@@ -68,6 +68,14 @@ module ApplicationTests
       assert_match "bin/program_name.rb", Dir.chdir(app_path) { `bin/rails runner "bin/program_name.rb"` }
     end
 
+    def test_passes_extra_args_to_file
+      app_file "bin/program_name.rb", <<-SCRIPT
+      p ARGV
+      SCRIPT
+
+      assert_match %w( a b ).to_s, Dir.chdir(app_path) { `bin/rails runner "bin/program_name.rb" a b` }
+    end
+
     def test_with_hook
       add_to_config <<-RUBY
         runner do |app|