Avoiding duplication in setting properties on the task in Rake tasks
- by Stray
I have a bunch of rake building tasks.
They each have unique input / output properties, but the majority of the properties I set on the tasks are the same each time. Currently I'm doing that via simple repetition like this:
task :buildThisModule => "bin/modules/thisModule.swf"
mxmlc "bin/modules/thisModule.swf" do |t|
t.input = "src/project/modules/ThisModule.as"
t.prop1 = value1
t.prop2 = value2 ... (And many more property=value sets that are the same in each task)
end
task :buildThatModule => "bin/modules/thatModule.swf"
mxmlc "bin/modules/thatModule.swf" do |t|
t.input = "src/project/modules/ThatModule.as"
t.prop1 = value1
t.prop2 = value2 ... (And many more property=value sets that are the same in each task)
end
In my usual programming headspace I'd expect to be able to break out the population of the recurring task properties to a re-usable function.
Is there a rake analogy for this? Some way I can have a single function where the shared properties are set on any task? Something equivalent to:
task :buildThisModule => "bin/modules/thisModule.swf"
mxmlc "bin/modules/thisModule.swf" do |t|
addCommonTaskParameters(t)
t.input = "src/project/modules/ThisModule.as"
end
task :buildThatModule => "bin/modules/thatModule.swf"
mxmlc "bin/modules/thatModule.swf" do |t|
addCommonTaskParameters(t)
t.input = "src/project/modules/ThatModule.as"
end
Thanks.
