From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2010-04-20T07:59:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Documenting Rakefile using rdoc

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Joel VanderWerf
<joelvanderwerf@gmail.com> wrote:
<snip>
> task "top-tasks" do
>  `rake --tasks`.split("\n").each do |t|
>    if t !~ /^rake \w+:/ and t =~ /^rake/
>      puts t
>    end
>  end
> end
>
> Maybe you can even use Rake's API to get the task list without shelling out.
>
>
task ":top-tasks" do
  Rake::Task.tasks.each do | tsk |
    next if tsk.name =~ /:/ # this could be more elaborate I guess
    puts "#{tsk.name} #{tsk.full_comment}"
  end
end

use with

rake :top-tasks ( just to distinguish from "normal" tasks ) I am too
lazy to tweak the rake script to allow
rake --top-tasks.

HTH
Robert


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