The issue is that invoke
only invokes the task if it is needed. Running rake --trace
shows:
(in /tmp/ruby) ** Invoke default (first_time) ** Execute default ** Invoke list (first_time) ** Execute list Hello level 1 ** Invoke list ** Invoke list
So you can see it’s trying to invoke the task :list
two more times. But one thing you can do is to change the body of the main task to:
task :default => [] do
Rake::Task[:list].invoke 1
Rake::Task[:list].reenable
Rake::Task[:list].invoke 2
Rake::Task[:list].reenable
Rake::Task[:list].invoke 3
end
then the :list
task is needed again and it correctly prints out all 3 statements.
The cleaner way to do it is to use execute
rather than invoke
:
task :default => [] do
Rake::Task[:list].execute 1
Rake::Task[:list].execute 2
Rake::Task[:list].execute 3
end
task :list, [:level] => [] do |t, args|
puts "Hello level #{args}"
end
That changes your puts
statement to use just args
rather than args.level
for some reason. There are some other caveats with using execute
over invoke
described in the link above.