Basic Rake by Jim Weirich
Why Stack Overflow recommends it
Stack Overflow users link it when explaining what a Rakefile or rake task is, since it is an introduction to Rake from the tool's own author.
Recommended by 2 people across 2 different months, 2010 to 2022.
What it is
A conference talk from Confreaks in which Jim Weirich, the creator of Rake, explains the basics of the Rake build tool. It covers how Rake is used in Rails and how to define and run your own tasks to automate development work.
What people said
Recommends Telemachus · 2010-05 · Stack Overflow · on “What is a Rakefile?”
As a follow-up, you may find these resources helpful: - Using the Rake Build Language [LINK] - rake [LINK] (there are good links here to additional tutorials or webcasts) - Basic Rake (video of a talk by Jim Weirich) [this video] - Power Rake (video of a talk by Jim Weirich) [LINK] Jim was the creator and maintainer of Rake before his death in 2014.
Recommends Prasanna Natarajan · 2012-10 · Stack Overflow · on “how to run a scheduler.rake file in rails?”
If you have to understand it, you'd rather read the code in the task file than run it. The rake file has nothing but ruby code in it (in a special dsl). It also pays to know about rake if you are into Rails. Here's a Rake Intro video [this video] by its creator Jim Weirich.
Cites xealits · 2022-10 · Stack Overflow · on “How to get the caller path from Ruby/Rake?”
Indeed, Rake finds the Rakefile (up in the parent directories if needed) and executes tasks from the directory of the Rakefile [1]. For example, if you have some simple rule task how to compile .c source files to .o , and you cd to the source directory in your project: proj/ rakefile src/ <-- you are here foo.c Then you cannot run the rule on the foo.c file in the current working directory by just calling $ rake foo.o # won't work Rake will complain that it does not know how to make foo.o task. Because it executes the rules from the proj directory and does not find the corresponding proj/foo.c file there. No matter where you are, you have to give it the relative file from the top directory (