ruby - Access variable from another rake namespace -

i have lot of rake tasks in nested namespaces.

all tasks has pretty same structure, instead of writing documentation each, want generate documentation, using configuration variables exist in each namespace.

small example:

namespace :metadata |ns|     config = {:data_location=>"/mnt/metadata/",               :data_description=>"metadata system 5"}     task :process |task|         # code     end end  namespace :frontend_log |ns|     config = {:data_location=>"/mnt/backend/",               :data_description=>"logdata backend"}     task :process |task|         # code     end end   namespace :backend_log |ns|     config = {:data_location=>"/mnt/backendlog/",               :data_description=>"logdata backend"}     task :process |task|         # code     end end 

imagine 150 more of these namespaces.

namespace :documentation |ns|     task :generate |task|         # each namespace has configuration         # generate sentence namespace     end end 

output example:

:metadata:process process data /mnt/metadata folder, contains metadata system 5

:frontend_log:process process data /mnt/backend folder, contains logdata backend

and on.

how config of :metadata inside :documentation:generate?

i doing avoid refactoring code, suggestions refactor welcome if constructive, really, it's not reason ask question.

so have solved in way:

namespace :metadata |ns|     config = {:data_location=>"/mnt/metadata/",               :data_description=>"metadata system 5"}     task :process |task|         # code     end     task :document |task|         selfdocument(config)     end end  namespace :frontend_log |ns|     config = {:data_location=>"/mnt/backend/",               :data_description=>"logdata backend"}     task :process |task|         # code     end     task :document |task|         selfdocument(config)     end end  namespace :backend_log |ns|     config = {:data_location=>"/mnt/backendlog/",               :data_description=>"logdata backend"}     task :process |task|         # code     end     task :document |task|         selfdocument(task, config)     end end 

with helper function

def selfdocument(task, config)     puts "#{task} process data #{config[:data_location]} folder, contains #{config[:data_description]}" end 

which not rewrite or refactor per say, since adding task, not moving code around or changing existing code.