Class: Rake::Application

Rake main application object. When invoking rake from the command line, a Rake::Application object is created and run.

Constants
DEFAULT_RAKEFILES
OPTIONS

Public Attributes
name	The name of the application (typically ‘rake’)
original_dir	The original directory where rake was invoked.
rakefile	Name of the actual rakefile used.
top_level_tasks	List of the top level task names (task names from the command line).

Public Methods
add_import	Add a file to the list of files to be imported.
add_loader	Add a loader to handle imported files ending in the extension `ext`.
collect_tasks	Collect the list of tasks on the command line. If no tasks are given, return a list containing only the default task. Environmental assignments are processed at this time as well.
command_line_options	Return a list of the command line options supported by the program.
const_warning	Warn about deprecated use of top level constant names.
display_prerequisites	Display the tasks and prerequisites
display_tasks_and_comments	Display the tasks and dependencies.
do_option	Do the option defined by `opt` and `value`.
handle_options	Read and handle the command line options.
have_rakefile	True if one of the files in RAKEFILES is in the current directory. If a match is found, it is copied into @rakefile.
help	Display the rake command line help.
init	Initialize the command line parameters and app name.
invoke_task	private —————————————————————-
load_imports	Load the pending list of imported files.
load_rakefile	Find the rakefile and then load it and any pending imports.
new	Initialize a Rake::Application object.
options	Application options from the command line
parse_task_string
rake_require	Similar to the regular Ruby `require` command, but will check for .rake files in addition to .rb files.
rakefile_location
raw_load_rakefile
run	Run the Rake application. The run method performs the following three steps:
standard_exception_handling	Provide standard execption handling for the given block.
top_level	Run the top level tasks of a Rake application.
truncate

Application

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