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desc

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desc(description) private

Describes the next rake task. Duplicate descriptions are discarded. Descriptions are shown with rake -T (up to the first sentence) and rake -D (the entire description).

Example:

desc "Run the Unit Tests"
task test: [:build]
  # ... run tests
end

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# File lib/rake/dsl_definition.rb, line 171
    def desc(description) # :doc:
      Rake.application.last_description = description
    end

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