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

You should be able to do this with 'enhance':

Rake::Task["my_task"].enhance do
  Rake::Task["my_after_task"].invoke
end

This will cause 'my_after_task' to be invoked after 'my_task'.

If you want to apply this to all tasks, just loop over all the tasks and call enhance for each:

Rake::Task.tasks.each do |t| 
  t.enhance do 
    Rake::Task["my_after_task"].invoke
  end
end

Full test file:

task :test1 do 
  puts 'test1'
end

task :test2 do 
  puts 'test2'
end

Rake::Task.tasks.each do |t|
  t.enhance do 
    puts 'after'
  end
end

And the output:

$ rake test1
test1
after

$ rake test2
test2
after