From: Ryan Davis <ryand@...>
Date: 2009-05-14T04:24:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Rake as a library/API: possible?


On May 13, 2009, at 04:11 , David Palm wrote:

> 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 think the biggie is that Rake::Application is a singleton.

% ruby -rubygems -e 'require "rake"; load "Rakefile"; p  
Rake.application.tasks.map { |t| t.name }.sort'
["announce", "audit", "autotest", "check_extra_deps",  
"check_manifest", "clean", "clobber", "clobber_docs",  
"clobber_package", "clobber_rcov", "config_hoe", "debug_gem",  
"default", "deps:email", "deps:fetch", "deps:list", "doc", "doc/ 
index.html", "docs", "email", "flay", "flog", "gem", "generate_key",  
"install_gem", "multi", "package", "pkg", "pkg/ZenTest-4.0.0", "pkg/ 
ZenTest-4.0.0.gem", "pkg/ZenTest-4.0.0.tgz", "post_blog", "post_news",  
"publish_docs", "publish_on_announce", "rcov", "rcov_info",  
"rcov_overlay", "redocs", "release", "repackage", "ridocs", "sort",  
"test", "test_deps", "update"]