# Todotask

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/todotask/90884>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [April 2, 2007, 6:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/todotask/90884 "2007-04-02T18:57:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![dasch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@dasch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dasch)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2007, 6:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/todotask/90884/1 "2007-04-02T18:57:57Z")

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Yes, I’ve had some spare time 😛

== What is it? ==

ToDoTask reads through your Ruby files, looking for TODOs in the  
comments, which it collects and outputs.

== Usage ==

# Rakefile

require ‘todotask’

ToDoTask.new

== Get it ==

gem install todotask

Cheers,  
Daniel S.

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**Author:** ![dasch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@dasch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dasch)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 10:24am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/todotask/90884/2 "2007-04-03T10:24:43Z")

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Hello,

On 2 Apr 2007, at 17:57, Daniel S. wrote:

> ToDoTask reads through your Ruby files, looking for TODOs in the  
> comments, which it collects and outputs.

Handy!

I just wanted to let you know of a Rake task in Rails that does  
something similar:

[http://ryandaigle.com/articles/2007/2/26/what-s-new-in-edge-rails-](http://ryandaigle.com/articles/2007/2/26/what-s-new-in-edge-rails-)  
source-code-annotations

Regards,  
Andy S.

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**Author:** ![dasch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@dasch](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dasch)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 11:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/todotask/90884/3 "2007-04-03T11:10:01Z")

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On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 17:23 +0900, Andrew S. wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> On 2 Apr 2007, at 17:57, Daniel S. wrote:
> 
> > ToDoTask reads through your Ruby files, looking for TODOs in the  
> > comments, which it collects and outputs.
> 
> Handy!

Thank you very much 🙂

> I just wanted to let you know of a Rake task in Rails that does  
> something similar:
> 
> [http://ryandaigle.com/articles/2007/2/26/what-s-new-in-edge-rails-](http://ryandaigle.com/articles/2007/2/26/what-s-new-in-edge-rails-)  
> source-code-annotations

Yeah, I was aware of it when I cooked this up, but I don’t really do  
Rails, and it seemed a bit Rails-specific, so I just made my own,  
simpler version. Probably should’ve written that somewhere…

Cheers,  
Daniel S.