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

I suggest you to use this if you have lots of tasks in the namespace.

task :my_tasks do
  Rake.application.in_namespace(:my_tasks){|x| x.tasks.each{|t| t.invoke}}
end

And then you can run all tasks in the namespace by:

rake my_tasks

With this, you don't need to worry to change your :all task when you add new tasks into that namespace.