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Asked: 2026-06-05T05:43:31+00:00

One can make rake display all available tasks with rake -T or rake –tasks

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One can make rake display all available tasks with rake -T or rake --tasks. But is it possible to either trace those tasks to their source without grepping around or better still, to make rake display the task source for you?

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  1. Editorial Team

    As I was typing this, I noticed that rake --help gives two options with identical descriptions:

    -D, --describe [PATTERN]         Describe the tasks (matching optional PATTERN), then exit.
-W, --where [PATTERN]            Describe the tasks (matching optional PATTERN), then exit.

    It turns out that rake -W <task> does output the location of the task source, although it sort of looks like it is culled from a stack trace.

    This answers the first question. Does anyone know if it’s possible to print the task source directly from the command line?

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