How do I make a Rake Task run after all other tasks? (i.e. a Rake AfterBuild task)

Question

I\'m new to Rake and using it to build .net projects. What I\'m interested in is having a Summary task that prints out a summary of what has been done. I want this task to alw

Answer 1

Posting this as a new answer to keep the other one available. This is much less elegant as I have to get into the guts of Rake and manually update the task list, but it works.

task :test1 do
  puts 'test1'
end

task :test2 do 
  puts 'test2'
end

task :after do
  puts 'after'
end

# top_level_tasks is't writable so we need to do this ugly
# instance_variable_set hack...
current_tasks =  Rake.application.top_level_tasks
current_tasks << :after
Rake.application.instance_variable_set(:@top_level_tasks, current_tasks)

Outputs:

$ rake test1
test1
after

$ rake test1 test2
test1
test2
after