Stumbled across something small but useful. Writing rake files for a Ruby gem? Then consider arranging them using the following conventions:

• place them under lib/tasks
• ensure they all end with the .rake extension

How to ensure that all your rake files under lib/tasks are available when you run a rake -T?

Easy - put this into your Rakefile.

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Dir.glob('lib/tasks/*.rake').each { |r| import r }

Some things to note:

• the .rake extension means that you can’t use require
• require works with files using the .rb extension
• import is your friend in this case