Why is this gem not adding rake tasks to a Rails app?

Question

We have a gem which runs via a Rake task. The task is defined in lib/tasks/<namespace>.rake. After reading Rake tasks inside gem not being found I confirmed that the .gemspec includes the file defining the task; there is also a railtie which should be including the tasks as suggested in including rake tasks in gems. And yet our Rails 4.1 application doesn't seem to load the Rake task.

What am I missing?

user_1622986 · Answer

in my case, the project requiring the gem had a rake file, and the gem I was requiring had the same name when I changed the name of the rake file I could see the tasks in the project.

my_gem had lib/tasks/XXXX.rake and my_proj also had lib/tasks/XXXX.rake, after I changed my_gem XXXX.rake to YYYY.rake I managed to list and use the tasks in YYYY.rake

Why is this gem not adding rake tasks to a Rails app?

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