natritmeyer · June 10, 2013 13:49 · Jun 10, 2013
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+# Example Rakefile that demonstrates how to add task dependencies
+# to custom rake tasks that don't allow for the normal rake task
+# behaviour around setting task dependencies.
+
+require 'cucumber/rake/task'
+
+# here's the task that I want to run before any of my cucumber tasks (see below)
+namespace :stub do
+  desc "Start stub required by features"
+  task :start do
+    puts "Starting stub"
+    # `command to start stub`
+  end
+end
+
+namespace :cuke do
+  Cucumber::Rake::Task.new(:all, "Run all the features") do |t|
+    t.libs << 'lib'
+  end
+
+  Cucumber::Rake::Task.new(:wip, "Run only wip features") do |t|
+    t.libs << 'lib'
+  end
+
+  #here's the magic:
+
+  # 1) select all tasks that begin with the "cuke:" namespace
+  tasks_in_cuke_namespace = Rake.application.tasks.select {|task| task.name.start_with? "cuke:"}
+
+  # 2) call #enhance on each of those tasks, passing an array of task dependencies
+  tasks_in_cuke_namespace.each do |task|
+    task.enhance ["stub:start"]
+  end
+end