Long ago I began to write some rake tasks, it's simple but doesn't have an instruction about how to add arguments to a rake task. What I did before is to use ruby environment variables.
task :try_argument do
ENV['GLOBAL_ARGUMENT1'] or ENV['GLOBAL_ARGUMENT2']
end
GLOBAL_ARGUMENT1=xxx GLOBAL_ARGUMENT2=yyy rake try_argument
As you seen, I have to set the global environment variable to pass the arguement to a rake task.
But there is another way to pass the arguments to rake task via []
task :try_argument, [:key1, :key2] do |t, args|
args.with_defaults(:key1 => value1, :key2 => value2)
args[:key1] or args[:key2]
end
rake try_argument[xxx, yyy]
It looks like the difference between hash arguments and normal arguments.
Both of them have disadvantage:
ENV arguments also changes the system env variables normal arguments do not make sense when calling, difficult to remember the meanings of arguments.
Both work fine, it depends on you to use which one.
