From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2006-08-18T02:45:14+09:00
Subject: Re: using a module at the toplevel doesn't work

Hi Capitain,

> What are you trying to do?

Well, I have module called Taskable. It's an emulation of Rake's basic
task pattern. eg.

  desc "foo description"

  task :foo =>  [ :foo_prerequisite ] do
    ...
  end

But rather than define tasks globally as with Rake's system. I designed
it to work within modules/classes namspace including the tasks being
actual methods. So the one can do:

  class X
    task :a => [:b] do
      print "a"
    end

    task :b do
      print "b"
    end
  end

  X.new.a; puts
  => ba

Unfortuately when I use this to make a Rake command-line emulator I
want to use the module at the toplevel and can't.

Thanks,
T.