[LRUG] Rake binstub

[Andrew Stewart]

On 9 Oct 2014, at 11:36, Stephen Best <bestie at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure what the virtue of removing the `cd` step from your cronjob is. It sounds way more trouble than it's worth. However this was interesting to think about the answers were great also.

I was mainly trying to understand why rake couldn't be run from outside its path.

Most unix programs can be run from wherever you like on the file system; the program figures out its own location, if necessary, and does its thing.  In contrast rake needs you to be in the project's top-level directory, or a subdirectory.  I've never tried to run rake from outside a project's directory, so I hadn't encountered this constraint before.

Cheers,
Andy