I am using Ruby on Rails and I see a ‘Rakefile’ in my application’s root directory. What is its purpose and when will it get executed?
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I am using Ruby on Rails and I see a ‘Rakefile’ in my application’s root directory. What is its purpose and when will it get executed?
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Rakefileis a ruby-written file which contains the definition of Rake tasks.Here you can find a small introduction to Rake.
The
Rakefilecan include other Ruby files. This is the case of Rails projects.In fact, in a Rails project you shouldn’t change the Rakefile directly. Instead, you can add more rake tasks by creating .rake files in the
lib/tasksfolder of your Rails project.