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Rake Task Management Essentials

You're reading from   Rake Task Management Essentials Deploy, test, and build software to solve real-world automation challenges using Rake.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783280773
Length 122 pages
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Andrey Koleshko Andrey Koleshko
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Rake Task Management Essentials
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. The Software Task Management Tool – Rake FREE CHAPTER 2. Working with Files 3. Working with Rules 4. Cleaning Up a Build 5. Running Tasks in Parallel 6. Debugging Rake Tasks 7. Integration with Rails 8. Testing Rake Tasks 9. Continuous Integration 10. Relentless Automation Index

Detecting a source for the rule dynamically


Say, we have this list of articles in our blog: article1.md, article2.md, and article3.markdown. When we get the value of task_name, which is one among article1.html, article2.html, or article3.html, there is no information on what the source is. If the value of task_name is article1.html, what is the source? Is it article1.md or article1.mardown? To understand this, we should define it dynamically. The possible solution is to go through articles and see if there is a file named article1.md or article1.mardown there. This is a possibility with proc too. Describing this is rather complicated.

The following example might give you some clarity:

require_relative 'blog_generator'

articles = Rake::FileList.new('**/*.md',
                 '**/*.markdown') do |files|
             files.exclude('~*')
             files.exclude(/^temp.+\//)
             files.exclude do |file|
               File.zero?(file)
             end
           end

task :default...
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