From: hemant <gethemant@...>
Date: 2007-07-16T08:13:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Rake?????

On 7/15/07, Bas van Gils <bas@van-gils.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 10:26:55PM +0900, John Joyce wrote:
> > ActiveRecord, the gem which is also a component of Ruby on Rails does
> > this with it's migrations feature.
> > It could be a lot to learn to use it separately from Rails, but it is
> > certainly possible and people do it.
>
> Hi,
>
> perhaps
>
>   http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/7051
>
> helps...
>

I hope you might have heard about 'make', which is a unix utility for
running tasks. Rake is its hip cousin in the sense, it can do
practically anything that "make" can do(and hence yes you can create
databases and what not) and  much more.

There are couple of excellent docs available about rake:

http://docs.rubyrake.org/read/chapter/1

http://www.railsenvy.com/2007/6/11/ruby-on-rails-rake-tutorial

And if you feel fine then:
http://www.martinfowler.com/articles/rake.html