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Automating tasks with Rake

Pat Eyler (pate@gnu.org), Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Freelance Developer

Pat Eyler is an infrastructure engineer for the LDS Church by profession, a Ruby geek by choice, and a writer by night. He enjoys reading, cooking, spending time with his family, and helping to build the Ruby community.

Summary: Find out about the Rake dependency management tool -- common uses of the tool, syntax of the executable configuration file, how to extend Rake using the Ruby programming language.

Date: 27 Sep 2005
Level: Intermediate
PDF: A4 and Letter (57 KB | 17 pages)Get Adobe® Reader®

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About this tutorial

Rake is a great addition to anybody's toolbox. If you haven't started using Rake to automate your daily computing tasks, you owe it to yourself to take a look at it today.

This tutorial walks through a history of task automation in the context of a development project, then briefly compares several automation (or dependency management) tools, presents a primer on Rake, and gives several extended examples of how to use it.

To make the best use of this tutorial, you should have Ruby and Rake installed on your system. More information about getting and installing these can be found in Resources.

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