From: Jim Freeze <jim@...>
Date: 2005-09-14T04:48:31+09:00
Subject: Launch directory in Rake

Hi

I have a directory of projects and in the directory above that, I
would like to put a Rakefile that manages tasks on those projects. 
The problem is that I cannot obtain the directory from with rake is
run.

What I want is the following:

  projects/
      Rakefile
      commandline/
        pkg/
          commandline.gem
      quiz42/
      project_xyz.../

  cd commandline
  rake gem

Inside the gem file is a task:

  task :gem do
    sh "gem build pkg/*gem"
  end

The problem is that the pwd is 'projects/', not 'projects/commandline'.
Also, I cannot tell that there is a way to know that the
rake command was run from 'projects/commandline'.

If a way exists, I would be happy to hear about it. If not, can we
add a @launch_dir (or @run_dir) to #load_rakefile?

Thanks

-- 
Jim Freeze