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Programatically remove a task by name in Rake
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rake_remove_task.rb
# Monkeypatch to remove tasks
module Rake
def self.remove_task(task_name)
Rake.application.instance_variable_get('@tasks').delete(task_name.to_s)
end
end
# Example: disable all of the tasks in the db namespace
namespace :db do |ns|
ns.tasks.each do |task|
Rake.remove_task(task)
end
end
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