From: "drbrain (Eric Hodel)" Date: 2012-10-19T03:12:06+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:48068] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6548] Rake doesn't ignore arguments after -- Issue #6548 has been updated by drbrain (Eric Hodel). With all due respect to matz, the final decision should be Jim's. Jim wrote rake and rake has supported the current behavior for many years. Please respect Jim's decision. ---------------------------------------- Bug #6548: Rake doesn't ignore arguments after -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/6548#change-31017 Author: rosenfeld (Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas) Status: Closed Priority: Normal Assignee: drbrain (Eric Hodel) Category: lib Target version: 2.0.0 ruby -v: ruby 1.9.3p125 (2012-02-16 revision 34643) [x86_64-linux] I've created this issue first in GitHub before I realized that Rake is now part of stdlib: https://github.com/jimweirich/rake/issues/115 I'll copy it here: rake some_task -- some_arg Raises an error after running some_task: Don't know how to build task some_arg. -- http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/