Rake provides a great way to automate repetitive or complex tasks. Here's a look at creating a simple and a more complex task.
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When rake tasks need to be part of a deployment, you could find yourself in a situation where the rake task was forgotten about or have to go through the process of shelling into the environment to execute the tasks. In this episode, we look at addressing these issues by creating a way to have rake tasks execute automatically.
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Motivation Rails rake tasks are commands that automate specific acti...
In this second article about Rake, we dive a little deeper and cover slightly advanced topics like file tasks, rules, multitasks and more that will improve your Rake chops...
rake command is explained in this post. rails provide a number of inbuilt tasks, but you can create your own task also as explained here. => Understanding the basics : When you create any new ra…