Is there a way to know the current rake task?

Question

Is it possible to know the current rake task within ruby:

# Rakefile
task :install do
  MyApp.somemethod(options)
end

# myapp.rb
class MyApp
  def somemetod(opts)
     ## current_task?
  end
end

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Edit

I'm asking about any enviroment|global variable that can be queried about that, because I wanted to make an app smart about rake, not modify the task itself. I'm thinking of making an app behave differently when it was run by rake.

Answer 1

This question has been asked a few places, and I didn't think any of the answers were very good... I think the answer is to check Rake.application.top_level_tasks, which is a list of tasks that will be run. Rake doesn't necessarily run just one task.

So, in this case:

if Rake.application.top_level_tasks.include? 'install'
  # do stuff
end

Answer 2

A better way would be use the block parameter

# Rakefile
task :install do |t|
  MyApp.somemethod(options, t)
end

# myapp.rb
class MyApp
  def self.somemetod(opts, task)
     task.name # should give the task_name
  end
end