2 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index d284e09..c810962 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 .*.sw[pon]
 coverage
+tags
 pkg
 .nfs.*
 .idea
diff --git a/Rakefile b/Rakefile
index fb47dc2..a7cc6eb 100644
--- a/Rakefile
+++ b/Rakefile
@@ -343,6 +343,11 @@ else
     rm_rf EXT_PARSER_SRC
   end
 
+  desc "Update the tags file"
+  task :tags do
+    system 'ctags', *Dir['**/*.{rb,c,h,java}']
+  end
+
   file EXT_PARSER_SRC => RAGEL_PATH do
     cd EXT_PARSER_DIR do
       if RAGEL_CODEGEN == 'ragel'