rake notes

rake_notes

=begin Basic Notes

a part of the standrd Ruby lib

Rake looks for Rakefile in dir
or *.rake

Globally available Rake
~/.rake dir
rake -g -T
# all global rake tasks..

RUN IT
rake task_name

rake
# this runs :default task if there is one..

=end



=begin Writing Tasks

desc "description of default task"
task :default do
	puts "this is the default task"
end

rake -T
#rake default # my default task description


DEPENDENCIY MANAGEMENT
task :default => ['another_task'] do
	puts "this is the default task"
end

RAKE first run :another_task then :default

=end

=begin

	RUN A TASK INSIDE ANOTHER TASK..

	desc "Example of task with invoke"
	task :first_task do
	  Rake::Task[:second_task].invoke
  end

=end


=begin 

file 'my_doc.pdf' => ['my_doc.xml', 'my_doc.xslt'] do
	...
end

=end