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

Add the following task outside of the namespace:

desc "Run all my tasks"
task :my_tasks => ["my_tasks:all"]

Keep in mind, that you can have a task with the same name as the namespace.

And hier a bigger example, that shows, how you can make use of tasks, which have the same name as the namespace, even when nesting namespaces:

namespace :job1 do
  task :do_something1 do
        puts "job1:do_something1"
    end

  task :do_something2 do
        puts "job1:do_something2"
    end
  task :all => [:do_something1, :do_something2]
end

desc "Job 1"
task :job1 => ["job1:all"]

# You do not need the "all"-task, but it might be handier to have one.
namespace :job2 do
  task :do_something1 do
        puts "job2:do_something1"
    end

  task :do_something2 do
        puts "job2:do_something2"
    end
end

desc "Job 2"
task :job2 => ["job2:do_something1", "job2:do_something2"]

namespace :superjob do
    namespace :job1 do
        task :do_something1 do
            puts "superjob:job1:do_something1"
        end

        task :do_something2 do
            puts "superjob:job1:do_something2"
        end
    end

    desc "Job 1 in Superjob"
    task :job1 => ["job1:do_something1", "job1:do_something2"]

    namespace :job2 do
        task :do_something1 do
            puts "superjob:job2:do_something1"
        end

        task :do_something2 do
            puts "superjob:job2:do_something2"
        end
    end

    desc "Job 2 in Superjob"
    task :job2 => ["job2:do_something1", "job2:do_something2"]
end

desc "My Super Job"
task :superjob => ["superjob:job1", "superjob:job2"]

# Do them all just by calling "$ rake"
task :default => [:job1, :job2, :superjob]

Just copy it and try it out.