Although this is contrary to rails best-practises, we cannot provide a schema.rb that works for both MySQL and PostgreSQL, so we have no choice. Our migrations are maintained, so it should always be possible to get back to a "clean" database schema anyway.
This allows us to reuse any CSS we have, unify
their look and unify their look with the regular
page design.
This works by instantiating ActionView and rendering
templates in a rake task.
Inspired by the errgent gem.