Interactive Rake prompt. Load your Rake environment once, and get a nice REPL.
gem install rake-repl
If you have rlwrap installed you'll get the full benefits of readline: history, reverse searches, etc.
Custom prompt/colors support via the colorize gem:
gem install colorize
export RAKE_REPL_PROMPT="[red:rake][blue: >>][ ]"
Simply replace rake with rake-repl.
Example run against the test Rakefile included in the project.
$ rake-repl
rake >> list
coordinates[x,y]
env:is:reset
list
rake >> coordinates[1,2]
Draw pixel at [1,2]
rake >> coordinates[1,2] env:is:reset
Draw pixel at [1,2]
ENV['STEP']: 0
rake >> env:is:reset STEP=2
ENV['STEP']: 2
rake >> env:is:reset
ENV['STEP']: 0
rake >> exit
Use Ctrl-D (i.e. EOF) to exit
- Running -T does not work - for some reason, when the tasks aren't loaded with
rake, the comments are not loaded properly.
- Chris Wanstrath for a nice implementation of a REPL that I heavily based myself on.
Vincent Roy :: vince@vroy.ca