showing a rake task's dependencies and sub-dependencies

[Daniel Higginbotham]

Is there a way to show all the dependencies and subdependencies for a rake task? With output like:

db:load:import
postload:setup
search:stop
db:drop
db:create

[Wyatt Greene]

Try rake -P

rake -help shows you the full list of rake options

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[Daniel Higginbotham]

Doesn't quite do what I want. It shows all tasks and their immediate dependencies, whereas I'd like one task and all its dependencies, and the dependencies' dependencies and so forth.

Sounds like a hackfest project for the new Waltham hack fest :D :D

[Tom Cocca]

if you  add --trace doesn't it show you everything that is being executed?

~ tom

[Wyatt Greene]

I hacked up a solution for you. I added an option to Rake that does
what you want: http://gist.github.com/416249

--Wyatt

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[Daniel Higginbotham]

Thanks, looks like rake --trace --dry-run is close enough for now, though the output isn't quite as clean as I'd like.

[Daniel Higginbotham]

Wow, thanks :) I'll give it a go later tonight, I hope.