Rake task to open an irb console for a gem you are developing

irb Rake Task

# John Meehan
# Rake Task for gem dev
# handy for opening a irb console for debugging Ruby Gems in development. 
# just put this rake task into your rake file
#
desc "Open an irb console with this gems library"
task :console do
  sh "irb -rubygems -I lib -r MyGemNameHere.rb"
end

# run with
# rake console