From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2008-04-21T09:45:05+09:00
Subject: Re: rakefile gives syntax error, unexpected ':', expecting $end

Hi --

On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, thufir wrote:

> I want to make run dependant on the compile and cat tasks, but don't seem
> to have the syntax quite correct:
>
> thufir@arrakis:~/foo$
> thufir@arrakis:~/foo$ rake run
> (in /home/thufir/foo)
> rake aborted!
> /home/thufir/foo/rakefile.rb:3: syntax error, unexpected ':', expecting
> $end
> task :run => :compile :cat do
>                       ^
>
> (See full trace by running task with --trace)
> thufir@arrakis:~/foo$
> thufir@arrakis:~/foo$ cat rakefile.rb
>
>
> task :run => :compile :cat do

Try this:

   task :run => [:compile, :cat] do


David

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