[Rake-devel] List of Files as prerequisits

[Jonas Pfenniger]

Hi Emanuel,

your problem (I think) is that you are relying on the execution order of
your task's dependencies. Here is a snippet that should work :

file "letter.txt" do
    #generate "letter.txt" somehow
end

task :ensure_hmms => "letter.txt" do
  (File.read('letter.txt').split("\n") - FileList['*.hmm']).each do
|missing_hmm|
    sh :touch, missing_hmm
  end
end

task :combineFiles=>:ensure_hmms do
   #do something with the files
end

-- 
Cheers,
  zimbatm
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