History - rake-10.4.2 Documentation

### 10.4.2 / 2014-12-02¶ ↑

Bug fixes:

- Rake no longer edits ARGV. This allows you to re-exec rake from a rake task. Pull requset #9 by Matt Palmer.

- Documented how Rake::DSL#desc handles sentences in task descriptions. Issue #7 by Raza Sayed.

- Fixed test error on 1.9.3 with legacy RubyGems. Issue #8 by Matt Palmer.

- Deleted duplicated History entry. Pull request #10 by Yuji Yamamoto.

### 10.4.1 / 2014-12-01¶ ↑

Bug fixes:

- Reverted fix for #277 as it caused numerous issues for rake users. rails/spring issue #366 by Gustavo Dutra.

### 10.4.0 / 2014-11-22¶ ↑

Enhancements:

- Upgraded to minitest 5. Pull request #292 by Teo Ljungberg.

- Added support for Pathname in rake tasks. Pull request #271 by Randy Coulman.

- Rake now ignores falsy dependencies which allows for easier programmatic creation of tasks. Pull request #273 by Manav.

- Rake no longer edits ARGV. This allows you to re-exec rake from a rake task. Issue #277 by Matt Palmer.

- Etc.nprocessors is used for counting the number of CPUs.

Bug fixes:

- Updated rake manpage. Issue #283 by Nathan Long, pull request #291 by skittleys.

- Add Rake::LATE to allow rebuilding of files that depend on deleted files. Bug #286, pull request #287 by David Grayson.

- Fix relinking of files when repackaging. Bug #276 by Muenze.

- Fixed some typos. Pull request #280 by Jed Northridge.

- Try counting CPUs via cpuinfo if host_os was not matched. Pull request #282 by Edouard B.

### 10.3.2 / 2014-05-15¶ ↑

Bug fixes:

- Rake no longer infinitely loops when showing exception causes that refer to each other. Bug #272 by Chris Bandy.

- Fixed documentation typos. Bug #275 by Jake Worth.

### 10.3.1 / 2014-04-17¶ ↑

Bug fixes:

- Really stop reporting an error when cleaning already-deleted files. Pull request #269 by Randy Coulman

- Fixed infinite loop when cleaning already-deleted files on windows.

### 10.3 / 2014-04-15¶ ↑

Enhancements:

- Added –build-all option to rake which treats all file prerequisites as out-of-date. Pull request #254 by Andrew Gilbert.

- Added Rake::NameSpace#scope. Issue #263 by Jon San Miguel.

Bug fixes:

- Suppress org.jruby package files in rake error messages for JRuby users. Issue #213 by Charles Nutter.

- Fixed typo, removed extra “h”. Pull request #267 by Hsing-Hui Hsu.

- Rake no longer reports an error when cleaning already-deleted files. Pull request #266 by Randy Coulman.

- Consume stderr while determining CPU count to avoid hang. Issue #268 by Albert Sun.

### 10.2.2 / 2014-03-27¶ ↑

Bug fixes:

- Restored Ruby 1.8.7 compatibility

### 10.2.1 / 2014-03-25¶ ↑

Bug fixes:

- File tasks including a ':' are now top-level tasks again. Issue #262 by Josh Holtrop.

- Use sysctl for CPU count for all BSDs. Pull request #261 by Joshua Stein.

- Fixed CPU detection for unknown platforms.

### 10.2.0 / 2014-03-24¶ ↑

Enhancements:

- Rake now requires Ruby 1.9 or newer. For me, this is a breaking change, but it seems that Jim planned to release it with Rake 10.2. See also pull request #247 by Philip Arndt.

- Rake now allows you to declare tasks under a namespace like:

      task 'a:b' do ... end

  Pull request #232 by Judson Lester.

- Task#source defaults to the first prerequisite in non-rule tasks. Pull request #215 by Avdi Grimm.

- Rake now automatically rebuilds and reloads imported files. Pull request #209 by Randy Coulman.

- The rake task arguments can contain escaped commas. Pull request #214 by Filip Hrbek.

- Rake now prints the exception class on errors. Patch #251 by David Cornu.

Bug fixes:

- Fixed typos. Pull request #256 by Valera Rozuvan, #250 via Jake Worth, #260 by Zachary Scott.

- Fixed documentation for calling tasks with arguments. Pull request #235 by John Varghese.

- Clarified `rake -f` usage message. Pull request #252 by Marco Pfatschbacher.

- Fixed a test failure on windows. Pull request #231 by Hiroshi Shirosaki.

- Fixed corrupted rake.1.gz. Pull request #225 by Michel Boaventura.

- Fixed bug in can_detect_signals? in test. Patch from #243 by Alexey Borzenkov.

### 10.1.1 and earlier¶ ↑

Additions to the old CHANGES file were not made consistently so some versions are missing from this file. These changes are usually described in the individual release notes files.

### 0.9.3¶ ↑

- The rake test loader now removes arguments it has processed. Issue #51

- Rake::TaskArguments now responds to values_at

- RakeFileUtils.verbose_flag = nil silences output the same as 0.8.7

- Rake tests are now directory-independent

- Rake tests are no longer require flexmock

- Commands constant is no longer polluting top level namespace.

- Show only the interesting portion of the backtrace by default (James M. Lawrence).

- Added –reduce-compat optiont to remove backward compatible DSL hacks (James M. Lawrence).

- lib/rake/file_list.rb (Rake::FileList#egrep): there is no need to open files in binary mode. (NAKAMURA Usaku)

### 0.9.2¶ ↑

- Unknown

### 0.9.1¶ ↑

- Added deprecation warnings to the Rake DSL methods.

### 0.9.0¶ ↑

- Incompatible change: Rake DSL commands ('task', 'file', etc.) are no longer private methods in Object. If you need to call 'task :xzy' inside your class, include Rake::DSL into the class. The DSL is still available at the top level scope (via the top level object which extends Rake::DSL).

- Rake now warns when the deprecated :needs syntax used.

- Rake history is now UTF-8 encoded.

- Rake now uses case-insensitive comparisons to find the Rakefile on Windows. Based on patch by Roger Pack.

- Rake now requires (instead of loads) files in the test task. Patch by Cezary Baginski.

- Fixed typos. Patches by Sean Scot August Moon and R.T. Lechow.

- Rake now prints the Rakefile directory only when it's different from the current directory. Patch by Alex Chaffee.

- Improved rakefile_location discovery on Windows. Patch by James Tucker.

- Rake now recognizes “Windows Server” as a windows system. Patch by Matthias Lüdtke

- Rake::RDocTask is deprecated. Use RDoc::Task from RDoc 2.4.2+ (require 'rdoc/task')

- Rake::GemPackageTask is deprecated. Use Gem::PackageTask (require 'rubygems/package_task')

- Rake now outputs various messages to $stderr instead of $stdout.

- Rake no longer emits warnings for Config. Patch by Santiago Pastorino.

- Split rake.rb into individual files.

- Support for the –where (-W) flag for showing where a task is defined.

- Fixed quoting in test task. (onestepback.org/redmine/issues/show/44, www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/1223138)

- Fixed the silent option parsing problem. (onestepback.org/redmine/issues/show/47)

- Fixed :verbose=>false flag on sh and ruby commands.

- Rake command line options may be given by default in a RAKEOPT environment variable.

- Errors in Rake will now display the task invocation chain in effect at the time of the error.

- Accepted change by warnickr to not expand test patterns in shell (allowing more files in the test suite).

- Fixed that file tasks did not perform prereq lookups in scope (Redmine #57).

### 0.8.7¶ ↑

- Fixed EXEEXT for JRuby on windows.

### 0.8.6¶ ↑

- Minor fixes to the RDoc generation (removed dependency on darkfish and removed inline source option).

- Now allow # comments to comment a task definition.

### 0.8.5¶ ↑

- Better support for the system command on Windows.

### 0.8.4¶ ↑

- Preserve case when locating rakefiles (patch from James

  1. Lawrence/quix)

- Better support for windows paths in the test task (patch from Simon Chiang/bahuvrihi)

- Windows system dir search order is now: HOME, HOMEDRIVE + HOMEPATH, APPDATA, USERPROFILE (patch from Luis Lavena)

- MingGW is now recognized as a windows platform. (patch from Luis Lavena)

- Numerous fixes to the windows test suite (patch from Luis Lavena).

- Improved Rakefile case insensitivity testing (patch from Luis Lavena).

- Fixed stray ARGV option problem that was interfering with Test::Unit::Runner.

- Fixed default verbose mode (was accidently changed to false).

- Removed reference to manage_gem to fix the warning produced by the gem package task.

### 0.8.3¶ ↑

- Enhanced the system directory detection in windows. We now check HOMEDRIVE/HOMEPATH and USERPROFILE if APPDATA isn't found. (Patch supplied by James Tucker). Rake no long aborts if it can't find the directory.

- Added fix to handle ruby installations in directories with spaces in their name.

### 0.8.2¶ ↑

- Fixed bug in package task so that it will include the subdir directory in the package for testing. (Bug found by Adam Majer)

- Added ENV var to rakefile to prevent OS X from including extended attribute junk in a tar file. (Bug found by Adam Majer)

- Fixed filename dependency order bug in test_inspect_pending and test_to_s_pending. (Bug found by Adam Majer)

- Fixed check for file utils options to make them immune to the symbol/string differences. (Patch supplied by Edwin Pratomo)

- Fixed bug with rules involving multiple source (Patch supplied by Emanuel Indermühle)

- Switched from getoptlong to optparse (patches supplied by Edwin Pratomo)

- The -T option will now attempt to dynamically sense the size of the terminal. RAKE_COLUMNS will override any dynamic sensing.

- FileList#clone and FileList#dup have better sematics w.r.t. taint and freeze.

- Added ability clear prerequisites, and/or actions from an existing task.

- Added the ability to reenable a task to be invoked a second time.

- Changed RDoc test task to have no default template. This makes it easier for the tempate to pick up the template from the environment.

- Changed from using Mutex to Monitor. Evidently Mutex causes thread join errors when Ruby is compiled with -disable-pthreads. (Patch supplied by Ittay Dror)

- Fixed bug in makefile parser that had problems with extra spaces in file task names. (Patch supplied by Ittay Dror)

- Added a performance patch for reading large makefile dependency files. (Patch supplied by Ittay Dror)

- Default values for task arguments can easily be specified with the :with_defaults method. (Idea for default argument merging supplied by (Adam Q. Salter)

- The -T output will only self-truncate if the output is a tty. However, if RAKE_COLUMNS is explicitly set, it will be honored in any case. (Patch provided by Gavin Stark).

- Numerous fixes for running under windows. A big thanks to Bheeshmar Redheendran for spending a good part of the afternoon at the Lonestar Ruby Conference to help me work out these issues.

### 0.8.1¶ ↑

- Removed requires on parsedate.rb (in Ftptools)

- Removed ftools from rake.rb. Made it options in sys.rb

### 0.8.0¶ ↑

- Added task parameters (e.g. “rake build”)

- Made task parameters passable to prerequisites.

- Comments are limited to 80 columns or so (suggested by Jamis Buck).

- Added -D to display full comments (suggested by Jamis Buck).

- The rake program will set the status value used in any explicit exit(n) calls. (patch provided by Stephen Touset)

- Fixed error in functional tests that were not including session (and silently skipping the functionl tests.

- Removed –usage and make -h the same as -H.

- Make a prettier inspect for tasks.

### 0.7.3¶ ↑

- Added existing and existing! methods to FileList

- FileLists now claim to be Arrays (via is_a?) to get better support from the FileUtil module.

- Added init and top_level for custom rake applications.

### 0.7.2¶ ↑

- Error messages are now send to stderr rather than stdout (from Payton Quackenbush).

- Better error handling on invalid command line arguments (from Payton Quackenbush).

- Added rcov task and updated unit testing for better code coverage.

- Fixed some bugs where the application object was going to the global appliation instead of using its own data.

- Added square and curly bracket patterns to FileList#include (Tilman Sauerbeck).

- Added plain filename support to rule dependents (suggested by Nobu Nakada).

- Added pathmap support to rule dependents.

- Added a 'tasks' method to a namespace to get a list of tasks associated with the namespace.

- Fixed the method name leak from FileUtils (bug found by Glenn Vanderburg).

- Added rake_extension to handle detection of extension collisions.

- Added test for noop, bad_option and verbose flags to sh command.

- Removed dependency on internal fu_xxx functions from FileUtils.

- Added a 'shame' task to the Rakefile.

- Added tar_command and zip_command options to the Package task.

- Added a description to the gem task in GemPackageTask.

- Fixed a bug when rules have multiple prerequisites (patch by Joel VanderWerf)

- Added a protected 'require “rubygems”' to test/test_application to unbreak cruisecontrol.rb.

- Added the handful of RakeFileUtils to the private method as well.

- Added block based exclusion.

- The clean task will no longer delete 'core' if it is a directory.

- Removed rake_dup. Now we just simply rescue a bad dup.

- Refactored the FileList reject logic to remove duplication.

- Removed if __FILE__ at the end of the rake.rb file.

### 0.7.1¶ ↑

- Added optional filter parameter to the –tasks command line option.

- Added flatten to allow rule transform procs to return lists of prereqs (Joel VanderWerf provided patch).

- Added pathmap to String and FileList.

- The -r option will now load .rake files (but a straight require doesn't yet). NOTE: This is experimental … it may be discontinued.

- The -f option without a value will disable the search for a Rakefile. The assumption is that the -r files are adequate.

- Fixed the safe_ln function to fall back to cp in more error scenarios.

### 0.7.0¶ ↑

- Added Rake#original_dir to return the original starting directory of the rake application.

- Added safe_ln support for openAFS (from Ludvig Omholt).

- Added –trace reminder on short exception messages (David Heinemeier Hansson suggestion).

- Added multitask declaration that executes prerequisites in parallel. (Doug Young providied an initial implementation).

- Fixed missing_const hack to be compatible with Rails. (Jamis Buck supplied test case).

- Made the RDoc task default to internal (in-process) RDoc formatting. The old behavior is still available by setting the `external` flag to true.

- Rakefiles are now loaded with the expanded path to prevent accidental polution from the Ruby load path.

- The `namespace` command now returns a NameSpace object that can be used to lookup tasks defined in that namespace. This allows for better anonymous namespace behavior.

- Task objects my now be used in prerequisite lists directly.

### 0.6.1¶ ↑

- Rebuilt 0.6.0 gem without signing.

### 0.6.0¶ ↑

- Fixed file creation bug in the unit tests (caused infinite loop on windows).

- Fixed bug where session based functional tests were run under windows.

- Fixed bug in directory tasks so that updating a directory will not retrigger file tasks depending on the directory (see FileCreationTask and EarlyTime).

- Added egrep to FileList

- ruby command now runs same ruby version as rake.

- Added investigation to task object. (suggested by Martin Fowler)

- Added ruby_opts to the test task to allow arbitrary ruby options to be passed to the test script. (Greg Fast)

- Fixed the test loader to ignore options. (Greg Fast)

- Moved Task, FileTask, FileCreationTask and RakeApp into the Rake module namespace. Old style namespace behavior can be invoked via the –classic-namespace option. (requested by Kelly Felkins).

- GemTask is now sensitive to the gem platform (Masao Mutoh).

- A non-existing file prerequisite will no longer cause an exception (Philipp Neubeck).

- Multiple prerequisites on Rake rules now allowed (initial patch supplied by Stuart Jansen).

### 0.5.4¶ ↑

- Added double quotes to the test runner.

- Added .svn to default ignore list.

- Updated FileList#include to support nested arrays and filelists.

### 0.5.3¶ ↑

- Added support for importing Rakefile and other dependencies.

- Fixed bug so that now rules can chain off of existing tasks as well as existing files.

- Fixed verbose flag bug in the testing task. Shortened some failure messages.

- Make FileUtils methods private at the top level module to avoid accidental method leaking into other objects.

- Added test loader option to test task. “testrb” is no longer the default test loader. It is now eating syntax errors that should halt the unit tests.

- Revamped FileList so that it works more like and array (addressed flatten bug). Added many tests around file list.

- Added `ext` method to both String and FileList.

### 0.5.0¶ ↑

- Fixed documentation that was lacking the Rake module name (Tilman Sauerbeck).

- Added tar.gz and tar.bz2 support to package task (Tilman Sauerbeck).

- Recursive rules are now supported (Tilman Sauerbeck).

- Added warning option for the Test Task (requested by Eric Hodel).

- The jamis rdoc template is only used if it exists.

- Added fix for Ruby 1.8.2 test/unit and rails problem.

- Added contributed rake man file (Jani Monoses).

- Added Brian Candler's fix for problems in –trace and –dry-run mode.

### 0.4.15¶ ↑

- Fixed a bug that prevented the TESTOPTS flag from working with the revised for 1.8.2 test task.

- Updated the docs on –trace to indicate that it also enables a full backtrace on errors.

### 0.4.14¶ ↑

- Modified the TestTask to workaround the Ruby 1.8.2 change in autoexecuting unit tests.

### 0.4.13¶ ↑

- Fixed the dry-run flag so it is operating again.

- Multiple arguments to sh and ruby commands will not be interpreted by the shell (patch provided by Jonathan Paisley).

### 0.4.12¶ ↑

- Added –silent (-s) to suppress the (in directory) rake message.

### 0.4.11¶ ↑

- Changed the “don't know how to rake” message (finally)

- Changes references to a literal “Rakefile” to reference the global variable $rakefile (which contains the actual name of the rakefile).

### 0.4.10¶ ↑

- Added block support to the “sh” command, allowing users to take special actions on the result of the system call. E.g.

      sh "shell_command" do |ok, res|
        puts "Program returned #{res.exitstatus}" if ! ok
      end

### 0.4.9¶ ↑

- Switched to Jamis Buck's RDoc template.

- Removed autorequire from Rake's gem spec. This prevents the Rake libraries from loading while using rails.

### 0.4.8¶ ↑

- Added support for .rb versions of Rakefile.

- Removed \n's from test task.

- Fixed Ruby 1.9 compatibility issue with FileList.

### 0.4.7¶ ↑

- Fixed problem in FileList that caused Ruby 1.9 to go into infinite recursion. Since to_a was removed from Object, it does not need to added back into the list of methods to rewrite in FileList. (Thanks to Kent Sibilev for pointing this out).

### 0.4.6¶ ↑

- Removed test version of ln in FileUtils that prevented safe_ln from using ln.

### 0.4.5¶ ↑

- Upgraded comments in TestTask.

- FileList to_s and inspect now automatically resolve pending changes.

- FileList#exclude properly returns the FileList.

### 0.4.4¶ ↑

- Fixed initialization problem with @comment.

- Now using multi -r technique in TestTask. Switch Rakefile back to using the built-in test task macros because the rake runtime is no longer needed.

- Added 'TEST=filename' and 'TESTOPTS=options' to the Test Task macros.

- Allow a `test_files` attribute in test tasks. This allows more flexibility in specifying test files.

### 0.4.3¶ ↑

- Fixed Comment leakage.

### 0.4.2¶ ↑

- Added safe_ln that falls back to a copy if a file link is not supported.

- Package builder now uses safe_ln.

### 0.4.1¶ ↑

- Task comments are now additive, combined with “/”.

- Works with (soon to be released) rubygems 0.6.2 (or 0.7.0)

### 0.4.0¶ ↑

- FileList now uses deferred loading. The file system is not searched until the first call that needs the file names.

- VAR=VALUE options are now accepted on the command line and are treated like environment variables. The values may be tested in a Rakefile by referencing ENV.

- File.mtime is now used (instead of File.new().mtime).

### 0.3.2.x¶ ↑

- Removed some hidden dependencies on rubygems. Tests now will test gems only if they are installed.

- Removed Sys from some example files. I believe that is that last reference to Sys outside of the contrib area.

- Updated all copyright notices to include 2004.

### 0.3.2¶ ↑

- GEM Installation now works with the application stub.

### 0.3.1¶ ↑

- FileLists now automatically ignore CVS, .bak, !

- GEM Installation now works.

### 0.3.0¶ ↑

Promoted 0.2.10.

### 0.2.10¶ ↑

General

- Added title to Rake's rdocs

- Contrib packages are no longer included in the documentation.

RDoc Issues

- Removed default for the '–main' option

- Fixed rendering of the rdoc options

- Fixed clean/clobber confusion with rerdoc

- 'title' attribute added

Package Task Library Issues

- Version (or explicit :noversion) is required.

- `package_file` attribute is now writable

FileList Issues

- Dropped bang version of exclude. Now using ant-like include/exclude semantics.

- Enabled the “yield self” idiom in FileList#initialize.

### 0.2.9¶ ↑

This version contains numerous changes as the RubyConf.new(2003) presentation was being prepared. The changes include:

- The monolithic rubyapp task library is in the process of being dropped in favor of lighter weight task libraries.

### 0.2.7¶ ↑

- Added “desc” for task descriptions.

- -T will now display tasks with descriptions.

- -P will display tasks and prerequisites.

- Dropped the Sys module in favor of the 1.8.x FileUtils module. Sys is still supported in the contrib area.

### 0.2.6¶ ↑

- Moved to RubyForge

### 0.2.5¶ ↑

- Switched to standard ruby app builder.

- Added no_match option to file matcher.

### 0.2.4¶ ↑

- Fixed indir, which neglected to actually change directories.

### 0.2.3¶ ↑

- Added rake module for a help target

- Added 'for_files' to Sys

- Added a $rakefile constant

- Added test for selecting proper rule with multiple targets.