Rake CLEAN/CLOBBER not deleting

rake, ruby

Solution

TL;DR: `$ rake clobber`

As the answer above said, they are not implicilty invoked. Here is an example, as you asked for.

~/deleteme$ cd project
total 8
-rw-r--r--@ 1 josh  staff  110 Jun 27 06:04 Rakefile


~/deleteme/project$ cat Rakefile
require 'rake/clean'
CLOBBER.include('bin')

task :default => ["compile"]

task :compile do
  mkdir 'bin'
end


~/deleteme/project$ rake
(in /Users/josh/deleteme/project)
mkdir bin


~/deleteme/project$ ls -l
total 8
-rw-r--r--@ 1 josh  staff  110 Jun 27 06:04 Rakefile
drwxr-xr-x  2 josh  staff   68 Jun 27 06:05 bin


~/deleteme/project$ rake -T
(in /Users/josh/deleteme/project)
rake clean    # Remove any temporary products.
rake clobber  # Remove any generated file.


~/deleteme/project$ rake clobber
(in /Users/josh/deleteme/project)
rm -r bin


~/deleteme/project$ ls -l
total 8
-rw-r--r--@ 1 josh  staff  110 Jun 27 06:04 Rakefile

Problem

I think I'm going mad. Can anyone help? I have the folder c:\project\bin I run the following to execute my rake script ``` cd C:\project rake ``` In my rake script I have: ``` require 'rake/clean' CLOBBER.include('bin') task :default => [:compile] task :compile do # do nothing end ``` It doesn't delete the "bin" folder nor the contents of the "bin" folder. I'm running Ruby in Windows (1.86 or so) and installed rake using, gem install rake. Have I missed something. I've tried --trace etc.. but get no feedback.

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