From: Suraj Kurapati <snk@...>
Date: 2006-12-06T05:04:46+09:00
Subject: Re: rakefile help: rakefile calling a rakefile?

John Gabriele wrote:
> I'd think I'd like to just do something this in the top-level Rakefile:
> 
> task :default => [:build_other_c_file] do |t|
>     sh "cd subdir; rake"
> end
> 
> Is that the way multi-rakefile projects usually do it?

That's how I do it. May not be the best solution, but hey, it works.

> I read one of Jim's posts relating to this
> http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/rake-devel/2005-December/000182.html
> but don't know exactly how I'd go about building a "unified dependency
> graph" as he recommends.

I suppose you could load (instead of require) the nested Rakefile into a 
namespace and then use it as a dependency. For example:

  namespace :nested
    load 'subdir/Rakefile'
  end

  task :default => :nested:default

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