From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2006-12-08T08:06:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Help with rake

On Dec 7, 2006, at 15:00 , Jeremy Woertink wrote:

> Can anyone tell me exactly how rake works? How does it know what to  
> do?

Jim Weirich's site onestepback.org has several articles on how rake  
does what it does:

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aonestepback.org+rake

If you want the short answer, it builds a dependency tree, performs a  
topological sort, then runs things in order until done.

> Also, when I run rake db:anything, it changes my schema file to an
> autogenerated format, can anyone tell me where it gets the info for
> this?

Ask the Rails list.

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