From: Roeland Moors <roelandmoors@...>
Date: 2004-08-26T06:22:33+09:00
Subject: Re: rake prepare gem

On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 12:53:29AM +0900, Jim Weirich wrote:
> 
> Roeland Moors said:
> > I'm using rake to create a gem, but I have some questions.
> 
> Great!
> 
> > Before creating a gem in Rake i would like to copy some files to
> > a different directory and then create the package.
> >
> > I tried something like this:
> >
> > task :gem => [:prepare_gem]
> >
> > task :prepare_gem do
> >     # do stuff here
> >     gem_task.gem_spec.files = files.to_a
> > end
> >
> > But the problem is that the prepare_gem is executed AFTER the gem
> > task. Is this normal?
> 
> Actually, yes.  First the explain why, and then the fix ...
> [snip]

Thanks a lot for the detailed information.

-- 
Roeland