From: Michael Guterl <mguterl@...>
Date: 2008-10-23T01:04:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Rake: How do I Override Var's Used by a Rule?

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Brock Rycenga
<brock.rycenga@gentex.com> wrote:
>
> This is really starting to feel like I am having a conversation with
> myself...
>
> Even if this is the correct way to do this, it would be really nice to
> know how to override var's from the command line. For example, with
> make, I could do the following:
>
> make -f mymakefile OPT1="new_val" OPT2="over_new_val" mytarget
>
> This would override value for OPT1 and OPT2 in the makefile. Is there
> something equivalent in rake?
>
OPT1 = ENV['OPT1'] || 'default value'

On another note, top posting is discouraged on this list.

HTH,
Michael Guterl