From: Eric Armstrong <Eric.Armstrong@...>
Date: 2006-07-29T07:40:08+09:00
Subject: Re: calling a task in rant at any time (not just as a prerequisite)

In Rake, I put the contents of the :myaction
task into a method. Then invoke the method
from either task.

Beats the hell out of make or ant...

bwv549 wrote:
> In rant, we call a task by denoting it as a dependancy:
> 
>   task :test => [:build] do    # calls :build before :test
>     -whatever-
>   end
> 
> How do you call a task at the end of (or inside) a block?
> 
>   task :myaction do
>     -some action-
>   end
> 
>   task :otheraction do
>     -some stuff here-
>     *** how to call :myaction here? **
>   end  (** or here? **)
> 
> Thanks
> 
>