From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2010-04-20T17:34:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Documenting Rakefile using rdoc

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 1:55 AM, Joel VanderWerf
<joelvanderwerf@gmail.com> wrote:
> namespace "tasks" do
>  rule /.*/ do |t|
This is sooo cool, how come I never found this in the doc I needed it
sooo badly.
Cheers
R.
>    pats = t.name.split(":")[1..-1].map {|pat| Regexp.new("\\A#{pat}\\z")}
>    Rake::Task.tasks.each do | tsk |
>      next unless tsk.full_comment
>      parts = tsk.name.split(":")
>      next unless parts.size <= pats.size + 1
>      next unless pats.zip(parts).all? {|pat, part| pat === part}
>      printf "rake %-19s# %s\n", tsk.name, tsk.full_comment
>    end
>  end
> end
>
> Use it like this:
>
> $ rake tasks  # show all top level tasks
> $ rake tasks:internals  # show all tasks in "internals" namespace
> $ rake tasks:internals:'build.*' # show all tasks in "internals" namespace
> whose name begins with build
>
> It probably still needs some tinkering...
>
>



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