From: Reacher <brandon.g.jones@...>
Date: 2008-02-26T05:44:55+09:00
Subject: Re: rake task with arguments

On Feb 25, 2:39 pm, Reacher <brandon.g.jo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I found an example (http://www.betweentherails.com/rake/) of passing
> arguments to a rake task in the new (0.8.n) version of rake. From this
> example, I created the following test:
>
> namespace :foo do
>   desc 'lol'
>   task :bar, :num do |t, args|
>     puts "num = #{args.num}"
>   end
> end
>
> I took a look at the task list:
>
> $ rake --tasks
> (in /path/to/my/dir)
> rake foo:bar[num]  # lol
>
> All looks well ... until I try to run it:
>
> $ rake foo:bar[123]
> rake: No match
>
> Hmm ..  let's try without the argument:
>
> $ rake foo:bar
> (in /path/to/my/dir)
> num =
>
> o.O

I figured it out

$ rake foo:bar\[123\]
(in /path/to/my/dir)
num = 123

BTW, csh is evil