[Rake-devel] :needs example

[Jim Weirich]

On Sep 22, 2008, at 9:58 PM, Steven Parkes wrote:
> Ah. In that case, it does look like the arguments have to be an  
> array, even
> if there's a single entry?

Yes.

> I had tried it without :needs but I didn't need
> two params, so I just did
>  task :name, :first_name => :pre_name do |t, args|
> which fails.
>
> The docs only talk about an array, so I should have tried that, but I
> didn't.
>
> [Did this used to be true? I used to have (god knows why ...)
>  Task { :name => :prereq }, :arg do |t,args|
> which used to work but no longer does ... but perhaps never should  
> have?]

That was never supported syntax.  I'm kinda surprised it worked.

> Entirely optional, but it wouldn't hurt to mention explicitly that  
> the args
> has to be an array, even if there's only one element, given that  
> being able
> to pass single objects unwrapped seems to be a common idiom in Ruby?

So noted.

> And, if you're in the docs,
>  The next to argumements are the names ...
> should be
>  The next two arguments are the names ...
> no?

Thanks.

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