On Feb 23, 2008, at 5:31 PM, Trans wrote: > Hi-- > > I'd like to suggest a simple feature addition to Rake. I would like to > define rake tasks in a default subdirectory (preferably rake/) and > have rake automatically load any files in it having a .rake extension > when there is no Rakefile. If the Rakefile is present it would defer > to it and not automatically load them. So this would strictly be an > additional feature, and not cause any backward compatibility issues. > > I would very much prefer this for keeping my project folders as > concise as possible. Right now nearly all my Rakefiles have but a > single line in them telling them to load from the subdirectory, > something which seems not all that uncommon these days. So it would be > very nice not to have to bother with the Rakefile at all in these > cases.
I'm not sure if this is documented anywhere, but if you place any file with the .rake extension inside the rakelib sub-directory, relative to the Rakefile, it will be automatically imported after the Rakefile is loaded. Assaf http://labnotes.org > > > Thanks, > T. > _______________________________________________ > Rake-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rake-devel _______________________________________________ Rake-devel mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rake-devel
