From: "drbrain (Eric Hodel)" Date: 2012-10-19T09:25:23+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:48075] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6548] Rake doesn't ignore arguments after -- Issue #6548 has been updated by drbrain (Eric Hodel). Use rake task arguments: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/rake-devel/2007-December/000352.html See also: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=rake+task+arguments ---------------------------------------- Bug #6548: Rake doesn't ignore arguments after -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/6548#change-31026 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/