very basic problem with rake task?

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I wrote the following rake task to execute the 'ls' UNIX command using the 'command' method in the 'FileOperation' module

require 'rake' require 'rake/testtask' require 'rake/rdoctask'

require 'FileOperations' include FileOperations

namespace :test do   task :post_heartrate do     FileOperations.command 'ls'   end end

When I run it, I get the following error: no such file to load -- FileOperations

Then, I get the following error if I take out the 'require' line: uninitialized constant FileOperations

I know this is a very basic problem. Any suggestions?

Thanks Chirag

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HI Chirag,

I’m guessing you copied the rake from the middle of a Rails app maybe? There is a lot of extra requires that are not “required”.

Here is a rake file that accomplishes what you describe. There were no other requires or anything else. This is the defined “Rake File Format”. Also, Dir.glob is in the Ruby core, so no requires are necessary. :

=== start RakeFile.rb === desc “List Files in current dir.”

task :list_files do Dir.glob(“*”).each do |d| puts d

    end

end === end RakeFile.rb ===

And the output : $ ls -l total 1 -rw-r–r-- 1 mlpf mkgroup-l-d 101 Aug 21 09:26 RakeFile.rb

$ rake -T (in /home/mlpf/ruby) rake list_files # List Files in current dir.

$ rake list_files (in /home/mlpf/ruby) RakeFile.rb

Here are the references I reviewed: http://rake.rubyforge.org/ “Rake Tutorial”: http://docs.rubyrake.org/read/book/1 “Rake Users Guide”: http://docs.rubyrake.org/read/book/2

Hope that helps! Peter Fitzgibbons http://fitzgibbons.info

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FileOperations is part of the guts of Rails.

To run an external command, use the "sh" method which Rake provides:

  sh 'somecommand'

Rake includes the Ruby standard FileUtils and adds a few handy extensions, so that's where you should be starting.

http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/fileutils/rdoc/index.html http://rake.rubyforge.org/classes/FileUtils.html