From: Pistos Christou <jesusrubsyou.5.pistos@...>
Date: 2006-04-07T00:40:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Rake: Making "cleanup" task

Jim Weirich wrote:
>> 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.

/me nods.

At the moment, I have a wrapper script which calls

rake [args, if any]
rake cleanup_task

It's too bad Rake can't do this [yet].  :\

Pistos

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