Web | This Site

Learning Ruby on Rails
Ruby on Rails Quick Guide
Ruby Tutorial
Ruby on Rails Resources
Selected Reading
© 2011 TutorialsPoint.COM

| Home |  | References |  | Discussion Forums |  | About TP

# Ruby on Rails - Rake

Rake is a utility similar to make in Unix. You can say Rake is the make of ruby - the R uby m AKE. Rails defines a number of tasks to help you.

Here is a list of various important commands supported by Rake:

- rake db:fixtures:load - Load fixtures into the current environment's database. Load specific fixtures using FIXTURES=x,y

- rake db:migrate - Migrate the database through scripts in db/migrate. Target specific version with VERSION=x

- rake db:schema:dump - Create a db/schema.rb file that can be portably used against any DB supported by AR.

- rake db:schema:load - Load a schema.rb file into the database.

- rake db:sessions:clear - Clear the sessions table.

- rake db:sessions:create - Creates a sessions table for use with CGI::Session::ActiveRecordStore.

- rake db:structure:dump - Dump the database structure to a SQL file.

- rake db:test:clone - Recreate the test database from the current environment's database schema.

- rake db:test:clone_structure - Recreate the test databases from the development structure.

- rake db:test:prepare - Prepare the test database and load the schema.

- rake db:test:purge - Empty the test database.

- rake doc:appBuild the app HTML Files.

- rake doc:clobber_app - Remove rdoc products.

- rake doc:clobber_plugins - Remove plugin documentation.

- rake doc:clobber_rails Remove rdoc products.

- rake doc:plugins - Generate documation for all installed plugins.

- rake doc:rails - Build the rails HTML Files.

- rake doc:reapp - Force a rebuild of the RDOC files

- rake doc:rerails - Force a rebuild of the RDOC files

- rake log:clear - Truncates all *.log files in log/ to zero bytes

- rake rails:freeze:edge - Lock this application to latest Edge Rails. Lock a specific revision with REVISION=X.

- rake rails:freeze:gems - Lock this application to the current gems (by unpacking them into vendor/rails)

- rake rails:unfreeze - Unlock this application from freeze of gems or edge and return to a fluid use of system gems

- rake rails:update - Update both scripts and public/javascripts from Rails.

- rake rails:update:javascripts - Update your javascripts from your current rails install.

- rake rails:update:scripts - Add new scripts to the application script/ directory.

- rake stats - Report code statistics (KLOCs, etc) from the application.

- rake test - Test all units and functionals

- rake test:functionals - Run tests for functionalsdb:test:prepare

- rake test:integration - Run tests for integrationdb:test:prepare

- rake test:plugins - Run tests for pluginsenvironment

- rake test:recent - Run tests for recentdb:test:prepare

- rake test:uncommitted - Run tests for uncommitteddb:test:prepare

- rake test:units - Run tests for unitsdb:test:prepare

- rake tmp:cache:clear - Clears all files and directories in tmp/cache

- rake tmp:clear - Clear session, cache, and socket files from tmp/

- rake tmp:create - Creates tmp directories for sessions, cache, and sockets

- rake tmp:sessions:clear - Clears all files in tmp/sessions

- rake tmp:sockets:clear - Clears all ruby_sess.* files in tmp/sessions

Advertisement

Online Image Processing

Indian Baby Names