Basic Rake
summary
Explains how Rake models jobs as tasks with explicit dependencies and executes them depth‑first so prerequisites run once, preventing duplicate runs; shows declaring a top‑level default task, splitting tasks into .rake files, and isolating collisions with namespaces. Demonstrates useful commands like rake -P for the dependency graph, rake -T and -D for documented tasks, using FileUtils and the built‑in sh/ruby helpers, and passing ENV variables to tasks while Rake runs from the project root.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:49What is Rake
- 3:19Rake file structure
- 6:06Task dependencies
- 8:17How Rake resolves dependencies
- 10:45Rake's engine simplicity
- 11:05Default task in Rake
- 12:16Rake file locations
- 14:19Using namespaces to avoid task conflicts
- 16:06Rake execution environment
- 18:53Rake command-line options
- 22:45Finding tasks with rake -T/-P
- 23:27Passing environment variables to Rake tasks
- 26:21Advanced Rake tasks
- 28:27Shell commands in tasks
- 29:29Automating docs with Rake
- 30:55Summary
