I've just pushed a new version of Rake to github under the branch
'env'. This version of rake has a number of changes from the latest
released version, including better error reporting, Dave Thomas's
"Ruby comments as Rake task comments" patch, task line number
reporting and splitting the app out of the monolithic rake.rb file
into one class per file.
However, the biggest change is that the Rake DSL methods (i.e. "task",
"file", "dir", "import", etc) are no longer available at the top level
scope of Ruby. For one think, this means that we will no long
conflict with JRuby's import statement. Rakefiles (and .rake
libraries) will be loaded in a special environment that enables the
DSL methods, but regular Ruby code (in .rb files) will not.
This has the potential of breaking some rake libraries out there, so
I'm leaving this change in the 'env' branch until I get more
experience with it. If you wish to check it out, please do so and
report back there.
WIth this change, if you want to use the Rake DSL in regular Ruby
code, you can:
(1) Include the module Rake::DSL into your class, or
(2) Run the code inside a Rake::DSL.environment do ... end block.
Thanks.
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-- Jim Weirich
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