# Task/method dependency library?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/task-method-dependency-library/179958>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [December 8, 2009, 7:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/task-method-dependency-library/179958 "2009-12-08T19:34:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![tcsnide](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/eb8c5e/32.png) [@tcsnide](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tcsnide)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2009, 7:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/task-method-dependency-library/179958/1 "2009-12-08T19:34:25Z")

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Has anyone developed a dependency management library akin to Rake’s,  
but for use as a library --does not lie at the top-level and tie into  
the command-line?

I tried my hand at it some time ago, but was never happy with the  
results. Was wondering if any one else had done so.

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**Author:** ![tcsnide](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/eb8c5e/32.png) [@tcsnide](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tcsnide)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 12:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/task-method-dependency-library/179958/2 "2009-12-09T00:10:42Z")

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> Has anyone developed a dependency management library akin to Rake’s,  
> but for use as a library --does not lie at the top-level and tie into  
> the command-line?

Thor, [GitHub - rails/thor: Thor is a toolkit for building powerful command-line interfaces.](http://github.com/wycats/thor#readme), has an invocation-  
dependency system that doesn’t lie at the top-level