They are tasks runner and not command line apps that ships with their own set of commands. Plus there are many other subtle things. For example:
The task code itself doesn't rely on (or import) anything from rake itself. Whereas with ace commands, your very first import is a BaseCommand from ace itself
Your comments feels like "lets see if I can begin a fight". I am more than happy, if you can suggest an alternative way to have project specific commands by installing a global binary.
Once you suggest an implementation. We both can together go through the merits and de-merits of your implementation and mine and happy to choose yours if it stands out :)
You wrote in bold text "you cannot have project-specific commands with a global binary".
In other words: it is impossible to do this
Being a rails developer I'd been running the "rails" command for years so I was just wondering why this statement was so definitive and I was wondering if ace was doing something rails can't.
Being a developer in general I was wondering why a global node script couldn't just do a cwd and go from there.
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make, rake, etc?
What am I not understanding?
They are tasks runner and not command line apps that ships with their own set of commands. Plus there are many other subtle things. For example:
The task code itself doesn't rely on (or import) anything from rake itself. Whereas with ace commands, your very first import is a
BaseCommandfrom ace itselfSo the rails command is a task runner too?
guides.rubyonrails.org/command_lin...
None of those commands require ruby be called directly on the command line. What is ace doing that I'm missing?
Your comments feels like "lets see if I can begin a fight". I am more than happy, if you can suggest an alternative way to have project specific commands by installing a global binary.
Once you suggest an implementation. We both can together go through the merits and de-merits of your implementation and mine and happy to choose yours if it stands out :)
You wrote in bold text "you cannot have project-specific commands with a global binary".
In other words: it is impossible to do this
Being a rails developer I'd been running the "rails" command for years so I was just wondering why this statement was so definitive and I was wondering if ace was doing something rails can't.
Being a developer in general I was wondering why a global node script couldn't just do a cwd and go from there.