From: David Palm <dvdplm@...>
Date: 2009-05-13T20:11:59+09:00
Subject: Rake as a library/API: possible?

Hi all,
I'm trying to use rake as a library/API to retrieve the rake tasks in a given directory.

Basically I'm looking to mimic the output of
	rake --tasks --silent

Looking through the source code and trying out some stuff in irb I'm getting the impression this usage was not considered at design stage. But is it possible?

>> a = Rake::Application.new
=> #<Rake::Application:0x4e4c8...
>> a.init
...throws me out of IRB, as does "Rake::Application.new.run"

I've been trying for a good while to get around the above all to no avail.

Can this be done? Am I better off by just doing:
  tasks = x%{rake --tasks --silent}

Thanks!
David