On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 2:42 AM, Rob Nichols < [email protected]> wrote:
> > Thank you Conrad. That was very helpful. Particularly the path to the > rake files and link to the turorial. > > Conrad Taylor wrote: > > Next, Rake is simply a gem that is used by Rails. Thus, you can find > > the documentation for Rake here and it took a simple Google search: > > > > http://rake.rubyforge.org > > > > If you search for it, you'll find it. > > > > I had found this and mentioned it in my original posting. My problem was > that the rake api told me how rake worked, but not how individual rake > tasks such as rake db:migrate worked. It seems the only way to find this > out is to dig into the code (which at the time of writing, I'd failed to > locate). > > If you're interested in the rake task db:migrate, you can do a search for the following file: databases.rake > I guess what I'm missing is an rdoc equivalent for rake tasks. It looks > like there has been some thoughts along these lines as Rake has a > display_tasks_and_comments method (which I think is used by 'rake -T'). > However the output is very basic and describes what the task does but > not how to use it. > > Did you read the following document: http://rake.rubyforge.org/files/doc/rakefile_rdoc.html > Perhaps I've been spoilt by api.rubyonrails.com. Its a shame that the > rake tasks that are core to Rails, aren't as well documented. > What are you trying to do? Perhaps more information from you can allow us to better assist you. -Conrad > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
