How do you avoid Rake task name conflict for dependencies?

Question

namespace :jobs do
  task :environment => [:environment] do
    #Something cool
  end
end

This causes a circular dependency on :environment, which I am just trying to depend on the Rails task environment.

How can this be correctly setup?

Answer 1

You should also be able to say:

task :environment => [ 'rake:environment' ] do ... end

The 'rake:' namespace is the top level namespace. It's like doing ::CONSTANT_NAME in ruby.

Answer 2

I have just had exactly the same issue, where a task in a namespace is trying to call a task of the same name in the parent namespace. This is indeed possible.

namespace :jobs do
  task :environment => [ '^environment' ] do
    #Something cool
  end
end

Each caret you use will begin name resolution one level higher in the namespace hierarchy. See: http://rake.rubyforge.org/files/doc/rakefile_rdoc.html