How to add a Rake task to the default Rake task?

Question

Somehow Rspec and Cucumber are making it into my default rake task (which is fine because I want them there). But I have tried adding additional tasks to the default task and it has no effect.

What is the proper way to add tasks to the default rake task?

Answer 1

Typically your Rakefile will have something like this:

task :default => [:spec] 

You just need to add more tasks into this list.

Answer 2

The answer from davogenes is correct for non-namespaced rake tasks.

If you want to have a default task in namespaces you need to do the following

namespace :mynamespace do   desc "This should be the default"   task :mydefault do     Do.something_by_default   end    desc "Another task in this namespace"   task :other do     Do.something   end end  desc "This is the default task of mynamespace" task mynamespace: 'mynamespace:mydefault' 

Then you can run rake mynamespace as well as rake mynamespace:other or rake mynamespace:mydefault.