Including rake tasks in gems

Question

1) Is there a \'best\' place for rake tasks inside of gems? I\'ve seen them in /tasks, /lib/tasks, and I\'ve seen them written as *.rb

Answer 1

for Rails 3 support, the top line of your lib/.rb file can be:

Dir["tasks/**/*.rake"].each { |ext| load ext } if defined?(Rake)

for Rails 2 support, the gem installer will have to edit their Rakefile and add:

Dir["#{Gem.searcher.find('').full_gem_path}/lib/tasks/**/*.rake"].each { |ext| load ext }

after the require statements.

NOTES:

• Be sure to replace with the name of your actual gem.
• This assumes all Rails-visible rake tasks are in lib/tasks/

I haven't found anything easier yet. Comments?