Rake task with arguments

Ruby
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I found an example (http://www.betweentherails.com/rake/) of passing
arguments to a rake task in the new (0.8.n) version of rake. From this
example, I created the following test:

namespace :foo do
desc ‘lol’
task :bar, :num do |t, args|
puts “num = #{args.num}”
end
end

I took a look at the task list:

$ rake --tasks
(in /path/to/my/dir)
rake foo:bar[num] # lol

All looks well … until I try to run it:

$ rake foo:bar[123]
rake: No match

Hmm … let’s try without the argument:

$ rake foo:bar
(in /path/to/my/dir)
num =

o.O