sprout-extensions

Purpose

Sprout-extensions is a set of little extensions monkey-patched into Sprout. It adds:

• the ability to use gems/tools on github

  mxmlc "app.swf" do |t| t.gem_name = 'jerryvos-sprout-flexsystemsdk-tool' end

• the ability to easily alias your sprout task to a simpler, namespaced version

  namespace :build do desc "Compile the main swf" mxmlc "app.swf" do |t| t.task_alias = 'main' # the alias end end

  rake -T

  rake app.swf # Compile the main swf rake build:main # Compile the main swf

• smarter tracking of when a rebuild actually has to happen when your task isn't named the same as your output file

  • For the following task, sprout/rake will always rebuild the file, even if it already exists and the dependencies are up-to-date. With sprout-extension this doesn't happen

    mxmlc "my_task_name" do |t| t.output = "my_app.swf" end