Rake task library

ruby-talk
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Is there any effort underway to compile a rake task library, the way ant
does?

martin

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Rake has a few tasks built in and a “secondary” area where new tasks
are tried out.

What exactly do you mean - plugins?

Gavin

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On Saturday, November 29, 2003, 6:02:10 PM, Martin wrote:

Is there any effort underway to compile a rake task library, the way ant
does?

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Martin DeMello wrote:

Is there any effort underway to compile a rake task library, the way ant
does?

There is no organized effort with the specific intention of building a
task library for Rake. However, I consider a well rounded task library
essential for the ultimate success of the project.

The latest release of Rake (release 0.3.0) contains a number of library
tasks for building packages, running tests and building rdocs. The type
of stuff you might need in any Ruby project, which is where I am using
Rake the most right now.

If you have an idea for a task library, I welcome you to sound it out,
either here or on the rake-devel@rubyforge.org mailing list.

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See Apache Ant™ User Manual - it allows a lot of common
tasks to be written declaratively. For instance we could have an
installer package generated by saying

make-installer (
:src => src_dir,
:lib => lib_dir,
:doc => doc_dir,
:installer => ‘install.rb’
)

The make-installer method might be complicated, and involve all sorts of
corner cases and tests, but once it’s written using it is trivial. Not
so much plugins as a library of common tasks, one to a method, and a
central site where they’re maintained.

martin

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Gavin Sinclair gsinclair@soyabean.com.au wrote:

On Saturday, November 29, 2003, 6:02:10 PM, Martin wrote:

Is there any effort underway to compile a rake task library, the way ant
does?

Rake has a few tasks built in and a “secondary” area where new tasks
are tried out.

What exactly do you mean - plugins?

5

I have some nebulous ideas; I’ll work them into a proper post when I
have some free time (regrettably scarce right now :-/).

martin

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Jim Weirich jweirich@one.net wrote:

If you have an idea for a task library, I welcome you to sound it out,
either here or on the rake-devel@rubyforge.org mailing list.

6

Martin DeMello wrote:

What exactly do you mean - plugins?

See Apache Ant™ User Manual - it allows a lot of common
tasks to be written declaratively. For instance we could have an
installer package generated by saying

make-installer (
:src => src_dir,
:lib => lib_dir,
:doc => doc_dir,
:installer => ‘install.rb’
)

Here’s an Rakefile example that creates a set of related tasks (named
:package, :repackage, :clobber_package, etc). The task will create both
a zip file and a gzipped tar file.

Rake::PackageTask.new(“myprogram”, “0.0.1”) do |p|
p.package_files.include(“lib//*.rb", "doc//*”, “Rakefile”)
p.package_files.exclude(/\bCVS\b)
p.need_zip = true
p.need_tar = true
end

See http://rake.rubyforge.org/ and check out classes named
Rake::XxxxTask for task library classes.

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– Jim Weirich jweirich@one.net http://onestepback.org

“Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct,
not tried it.” – Donald Knuth (in a memo to Peter van Emde Boas)