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This has come up a couple of times for me - and I finally found the reference that answers the question.

The simple form:

task :primary => [:secondary]

task :secondary do
puts “Doing Secondary Task”
end


Is easy to remember - since that is basically Make-ish. Meaning that it sets up the dependency on secondary by primary.

The problem I was having was making a rake task that basically collects a set of existing rake tasks. This happens when I need to do a much of database creation and loading from specific directories.

Here’s that one

task :primary do
Rake::Task[:secondary].invoke
end

task :secondary do
puts “Doing Secondary Task”
end


Now I can stop doing the dependency dance and just setup a task that runs like a normal script!