From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2006-04-06T06:09:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Rake: Making "cleanup" task

Pistos Christou wrote:
> I'm just getting my feet wet with Rake, at least as far as running unit 
> tests is concerned.
> 
> I have some initializer and cleanup stuff that I'd like run before and 
> after ANY rake task (all of which are TestTasks in my case).  I'm using 
> the dependency method to setup the initializer, which is fine, but I 
> don't know how to get my cleanup task to run, since rake aborts at the 
> first test failure.
> 
> I basically need the rake-task equivalent of Ruby's "ensure".
> 
> Is this possible?  If so, how?  :)

There's no direct way to do this in Rake task, but you can always wrap 
your task in begin/ensure/end yourself.

For example:

  task :test do
    begin
      ruby 'test_example.rb'
    ensure
      puts "OK"
    end
  end

will always print "OK", even if the tests fail.  Unfortunately, the 
built-in test task does not have any hooks for this, but it its not hard 
to roll your own in this case.

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