From: James Britt <james.britt@...>
Date: 2007-01-16T05:17:11+09:00
Subject: Q: How can a Rake task know the caller's directory?

I'm increasingly using rake files for common system tasks.  Since Rake 
will search up a directory tree until it finds a Rakefile, I can have 
one in my home directory and call tasks from anyplace below that.

But tasks that need to know something about the current directory have 
me stymied.  Calling Dir.pwd in a task reflects the directory of the 
Rakefile.

Is there a rake method that returns the path of  where the Rakefile 
search began?


E.g., if I'm in /home/james/foo/bar, and the nearest Rakefile is in 
/home/james, with task :whereami, and I call

  $ rake whereami

what does :whereami have to do to return '/home/james/foo/bar' ?

Thanks!

-- 
James Britt