File.open, write and save?
If you just need to perform a simple script like creating a file, you can simply use a Ruby script without creating a rake task.
# file origin.rbtarget = "target.rb"content = <<-RUBY puts "I'm the target!"RUBYFile.open(target, "w+") do |f| f.write(content)endAnd you can execute the file with
$ ruby origin.rb
directory = "../../directory"File.open(File.join(directory, 'file.rb'), 'w') do |f| f.puts "contents"end
This turned out to be the best solution.
File.open("linecount.txt",'w') do |filea| File.open("testfile.txt",'r') do |fileb| while line = fileb.gets filea.puts line.length end endend