From: DaZoner <bugmenot@...>
Date: 2005-03-30T04:19:47+09:00
Subject: Rake newbie needs help


I've read the rake docs online and I've got a very simple rakefile to work. 
Now I'd like to make it more complex and I can't figure out how to do it. 
Can anyone let me know if what I want to do is possible and how to do it?

Why doesn't the following rakefile print "Making ..."?

task :default => [:build]

task :build do
  print "In build\n"
  file "newzip.zip"  do |t|
    print "Making ",t.name,"\n"
  end
end

Also I'd like to give the filetask prereq's saying only do this step if the 
file is out of date with *.rb and data/*.dat. Can I do this? Does it look 
like this?

file "zipfile.zip" => ["*.rb","data/*.dat"] do |t|
end

Thanks for your help.