Asking questions in rake tasks

Question

I have a rake task that is called from another rake task.

In this rake task I need to ask the user for some text input, and then, depending on the answer either continue, or stop everything from continuing (including the calling rake task).

How can I do this?

Answer 1

task :input_test do
  input = ''
  STDOUT.puts "What is the airspeed velocity of a swallow?"
  input = STDIN.gets.chomp
  raise "bah, humbug!" unless input == "an african or european swallow?"
end
task :blah_blah => :input_test do 
end

i think that should work