Robert James wrote:
> Any way to force a rake task to run but skip its prereqs?  Sometimes you
> need to do this.
>
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Probably:

  task :without do
    meth()
  end

  task :with => [ preq ] do
    meth()
  end

  def meth
    # orig. task code
  end

T.