Question

I’m trying to use collectiveidea’s delayed_job gem
The installation instructions include

Rake tasks are not automatically loaded from gems, so you’ll need to add
the following to your Rakefile:

begin
  require 'delayed/tasks'
rescue LoadError
  STDERR.puts "Run `rake gems:install` to install delayed_job"
end

Where is my Rakefile? And what is a Rakefile?

Answer 1

The Rakefile is a file that is used to configure rake, a Ruby build tool (sort of like make, but all in Ruby). In a Rails project, there is a file in the top project directory named Rakefile where you can insert this code.

Alternatively, you can add a file into the lib/tasks directory (for example named delayed_job.rake) and put the code into there. The name of the file is not important as long as

1. It is in the lib/tasks directory
2. It has the extension .rake