Is there a “method_missing” for rake tasks?

Question

If my Rakefile does not find a task with a particular name, I\'d like rake to instead create a new task by that name according to certain rules, if a file with the

Answer 1

I haven't tried it, but a quick search revealed this.

If you define a rule with an empty string, you can catch any task that hasn’t been defined elsewhere. This makes it easy to dynamically create rake tasks. Essentially, this is method_missing for rake!

rule "" do |t|
  t.name 
  # ... do something with the name of the task  
end