Default task for namespace in Rake

Question

Given something like:

namespace :my_tasks do
  task :foo do
    do_something
  end

  task :bar do
    do_something_else
  end

  task :all => [:foo, :bar         


        

Answer 1

Not very intuitive, but you can have a namespace and a task that have the same name, and that effectively gives you what you want. For instance

namespace :my_task do
  task :foo do
    do_foo
  end
  task :bar do
    do_bar
  end
end

task :my_task do
  Rake::Task['my_task:foo'].invoke
  Rake::Task['my_task:bar'].invoke
end

Now you can run commands like,

rake my_task:foo

and

rake my_task