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Rake Task Management Essentials

By : Andrey Koleshko
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Rake Task Management Essentials

By: Andrey Koleshko

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Rake Task Management Essentials
Andrey Koleshko
Apr, 2014 | 122 pages
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Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Rake Task Management Essentials
Rake Task Management Essentials
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
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1
The Software Task Management Tool – Rake
The Software Task Management Tool – Rake
Installing Rake
Introducing rake tasks
The command-line arguments
Using global Rakefiles to run tasks anywhere
Defining custom rake tasks
Task dependencies – prerequisites
The structure of a Rake project
The code conventions of Rake
Summary
2
Working with Files
Working with Files
Using file tasks to work with files
The characteristics of the file task dependencies
Creating a folder with the directory method
Using Rake's file utilities
A practical example of automatically generating a config file
Summary
3
Working with Rules
Working with Rules
Understanding the duplication of the file tasks
Using a rule to get rid of the duplicated file tasks
Detecting a source for the rule dynamically
Using a regular expression to match more tasks
Summary
4
Cleaning Up a Build
Cleaning Up a Build
Setting up a project
The cleaning tasks
Summary
5
Running Tasks in Parallel
Running Tasks in Parallel
Defining tasks with parallel prerequisites
Thread safety of multitasks
Multiple task definitions with a common prerequisite
Applying multitasks in practice
Summary
6
Debugging Rake Tasks
Debugging Rake Tasks
Using command-line arguments for debugging
Getting a dependency's resolution with --prereqs
Using the --rules option to trace the rule resolution
Using the Ruby approach to debug a Rake project
Summary
7
Integration with Rails
Integration with Rails
Introducing Rake's integration with Rails
Custom rake tasks in a Rails project
Recurrent running of tasks
Summary
8
Testing Rake Tasks
Testing Rake Tasks
The need for tests
Writing tests for rake tasks
Summary
9
Continuous Integration
Continuous Integration
Introducing Jenkins
Setting up Jenkins
Configuring Jenkins to run rake tasks
Summary
10
Relentless Automation
Relentless Automation
Examples of Rake being used by famous gems
Other examples of Sinatra using Rake
Thor – the next generation of Rake
Summary
Index
Index

About the Reviewers

Mario Miguel Agüero Obando is a software engineer with experience in both frontend and backend sides of software development. He has worked in intensive data processing applications and also in new UX designs.

He is also an experienced programming trainer and has reviewed several technical books.

Stuart Ellis works for a Ruby on Rails and mobile software development company, where he wears many hats. He has also worked as a .NET and Ruby programmer, tamed various brands of databases, managed different combinations of Windows and Linux, and studied history. He has always been a Yorkshireman.

Avinasha Sastry has been involved in technology and startups right from his college days. He has never worked in big companies because he loves the business challenges in startups as much as he loves technology. He has been working with SupportBee for the last three years. He is an avid reader, a Harry Potter fan, and a globetrotter.

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