guard against not being able to load rdoc tasks

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/Rakefile b/Rakefile
index 4db3557..e200300 100644
--- a/Rakefile
+++ b/Rakefile
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ require 'rake/testtask'
 require 'rake/packagetask'
 require 'rake/gempackagetask'
 require 'rake/contrib/rubyforgepublisher'
-require 'rdoc/task'
 
 $:.unshift(File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/lib")
 require 'plist'
@@ -103,19 +102,25 @@ task :update_rdoc => [ :rdoc ] do
   Rake::SshDirPublisher.new("#{RUBYFORGE_USER}@rubyforge.org", "/var/www/gforge-projects/#{RUBYFORGE_PROJECT}", "rdoc").upload
 end
 
-# Genereate the RDoc documentation
-RDoc::Task.new do |rdoc|
-  rdoc.title = "All-purpose Property List manipulation library"
-  rdoc.main  = "README.rdoc"
-
-  rdoc.rdoc_dir = 'rdoc'
-  rdoc.rdoc_files.include('README.rdoc', 'LICENSE', 'CHANGELOG')
-  rdoc.rdoc_files.include('lib/**')
-
-  rdoc.options = [
-    '-H', # show hash marks on method names in comments
-    '-N', # show line numbers
-  ]
+begin
+  require 'rdoc/task'
+
+  # Generate the RDoc documentation
+  RDoc::Task.new do |rdoc|
+    rdoc.title = "All-purpose Property List manipulation library"
+    rdoc.main  = "README.rdoc"
+    
+    rdoc.rdoc_dir = 'rdoc'
+    rdoc.rdoc_files.include('README.rdoc', 'LICENSE', 'CHANGELOG')
+    rdoc.rdoc_files.include('lib/**')
+    
+    rdoc.options = [
+      '-H', # show hash marks on method names in comments
+      '-N', # show line numbers
+    ]
+  end
+rescue LoadError
+  $stderr.puts "Could not load rdoc tasks"
 end
 
 # Create compressed packages