On Jul 14, 9:39 am, Preeti <[email protected]> wrote: > What is Rake? I don't understand what the use of it is. Say I have > already made a RoR app, It's all done and ready to go. I can just so > script/server, and boom its running. What is the use of Rake? I > understand that it's to "deploy" the application but what does that > mean?
That's not really what rake is (were you thinking of capistrano?). rake is a fairly general purpose tool, from the rake home page "This package contains Rake, a simple ruby build program with capabilities similar to make. Rake has the following features: Rakefiles (rake‘s version of Makefiles) are completely defined in standard Ruby syntax. No XML files to edit. No quirky Makefile syntax to worry about (is that a tab or a space?) Users can specify tasks with prerequisites. Rake supports rule patterns to synthesize implicit tasks. Flexible FileLists that act like arrays but know about manipulating file names and paths. A library of prepackaged tasks to make building rakefiles easier. " rails comes with a bunch of tasks you may find useful while working on a rails app (type rake -T from your rails app to see them) and of course you can write your own Fred -- 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.
