Loading plugin rake tasks before #{RAILS_ROOT}/lib/tasks

rubyonrails-core
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I would like to be able to have the ability to access/modify rake tasks provided by a plugin from within my application, in tasks defined in #{RAILS_ROOT}/lib/tasks. Right now, the plugin .rake files are loaded after those found in #{RAILS_ROOT}/lib/tasks, so the latter can't access the former without an explicit rake_require, which seems kind of odd.

If you've ever needed to overwrite a rake task provided by a plugin, and didn't want to modify the original plugin source, please check this patch out and +1 if it looks okay.

Thanks

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Isn’t it best if you actually link to the patch?

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I would've guessed it was more common that plugins might overwrite one of the default rake tasks, no?

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Right, a link to the patch! Hah. Here it is:

http://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994-ruby-on-rails/tickets/259-load-plugin-rake-tasks-before-root-lib-tasks

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Plugins would still be able to overwrite the Rails-provided rake tasks. The patch just makes it so that the rake tasks you define in .rake files in your application are able to overwrite those defined by either Rails *or* plugins.