From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-01-16T23:45:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Q: How can a Rake task know the caller's directory?

On Jan 15, 2007, at 9:57 PM, Trans wrote:

>
> Jim Weirich wrote:
>> 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.
>
> why did you choose to use environment vars here. isn't that sort of
> like using globals? also, these don't work in my case becuase i can't
> differentiate the env vars set by rake from the "real" env vars.

Sure you can.  Just introduce a little pragmatic namespacing:

   rake com RAKE_MSG="This is my log message"

James Edward Gray II