Using Rake on a gem with dependencies

Question

I have a gem that requires a 'Cms' namespace to be present when running.

However, when running rake tasks, nothing works as this Cms namespace isn't present. How do I get my rake tasks to work?

Answer 1

You can either, load your project source into the Rakefile (like Rails would do) or define a dummy module with the name Cms on your project.

# Rakefile
module Cms; end

task :my_task do
  # ..
end

If you are on rails, and this gem is a dependency, you just have to make your task dependent of the :environment rails' task.

# some_task.rake
task :my_task => :environment do
  # ..
end

Hope this helps.