From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2007-01-16T12:07:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Q: How can a Rake task know the caller's directory?

James Britt wrote:
> Trans wrote:
>>>   $ r com This is my log message
>> 
>> how are you accessing "This is my log message" in your task?
> 
> ARGV.shift # remove the task name
> ARGV.join( ' ') # Get everything else on the command line
> 
> Sadly, rake still thinks that there are more tasks on the command line;
> even calling ARGV.clear doesn't help.
> 
> (I looked for the command to flush the Rake task call queue, but
> couldn't find it, so I live with the error it raises at the end. :(  )

You could do:

  rake com MSG="This is my log message"

Inside of your Rakefile, ENV['MSG'] will contain your log message.

Sadly, more typing that what you have, but it works with rake instead of 
against it.

-- Jim Weirich

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