From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2007-01-16T12:02:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Q: How can a Rake task know the caller's directory?

James Britt wrote:
> 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!

task :whereami do
  puts Rake.original_dir
end


-- Jim Weirich

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