From: Simon Krahnke <overlord@...>
Date: 2008-04-22T23:05:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Rake: race condition between task prerequisites

* Tobie Langel <tobie.langel@gmail.com> (14:58) schrieb:

> I'm having a strange race condition between task prerequisites in the
> following rakefile:
>
> http://github.com/tobie/prototype/tree/master/Rakefile#L49
>
> At line #49, the :test rake tasks has the following prerequisites:
> :build_tests, :dist and :test_units.
>
> :build_tests is correctly executed, as the files are generated, but
> :test_units doesn't wait for the files to be generated before running.

If :test_units needs the result of :build_tests, the latter should be a
prerequisite of the first.

mfg,                      simon .... l