investigation() Instance Public methods Return a string describing the internal state of a task. Useful for debugging.

invoke(*args) Instance Public methods Invoke the task if it is needed. Prerequisites are invoked first.

name() Instance Public methods Name of the task, including any namespace qualifiers.

needed?() Instance Public methods Is this task needed?

prerequisite_tasks() Instance Public methods List of prerequisite tasks

reenable() Instance Public methods Reenable the task, allowing its tasks to be executed if the task is invoked again.

set_arg_names(args) Instance Public methods Set the names of the arguments for this task. args should be an array of symbols, one for each argument name.

source() Instance Public methods First source from a rule (nil if no sources)

sources() Instance Public methods

timestamp() Instance Public methods Timestamp for this task. Basic tasks return the current time for their time stamp. Other tasks can be more sophisticated.