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Rake equivalent to make -k (--keep-going)

By default Rake will stop at the first exception raised.

There doesn't seem to be a command line equivalent to make -k, is there any way to do it programmaticaly?

Solution

  • Unfortunately there is no --keep-going in rake (and I think that's fine). The only way I can think of is to wrap your Rakefile with begin; rescue; end, but it won't make it "keep going" -- it will simply ensure that your rake's execution return is 0.

    begin
  # Former Rakefile code goes here
rescue
  puts $!.inspect
end

    I believe that "keep going" isn't possible since when you raise something you already changed your algorithm's flow -- i.e. don't try to solve your problem by ignoring Exceptions.