0 Tom Enebo posts on <a href="http://www.dzone.com/links/rake_and_ant_together_a_pick_it_n_stick_it_approa.html">build tools in JRuby</a> on the Engine Yard Blog. 2010-02-19T19:56:03+00:00 false 3500 2010-02-19T19:56:03+00:00 590 0 After a year of fiddling around with different testing solutions for Sphinx, and getting frustrated with problems related to transactional fixtures and primary keys overflowing 32-bit-sphinx (not to mention the overhead of starting and stopping the daemon), I finally settled on a subclass of ActiveSupport::TestCase and a custom rake task. Read <a href="http://darwinweb.net/articles/84">the writeup</a> 2010-02-15T16:52:40+00:00 false 3460 2010-02-15T16:52:40+00:00 819 0 I just launched <a href="http://www.matthewhutchinson.net/2010/2/7/fake-it-till-you-make-it" rel="nofollow" >a 'fake out' rake task</a>. Using the very excellent Faker gem by Benjamin Curtis this task can be configured to populate your models with random amounts of fake information. This can a be a real time-saver for load testing, preparing demos/screencasts, or just filling up your pages with realistic data so you can get to work on your views. Here's <a href="http://www.matthewhutchinson.net/2010/2/7/fake-it-till-you-make-it" rel="nofollow" >the blog post</a> and <a href="http://gist.github.com/296041" rel="nofollow" >the script as a Gist on GitHub</a> 2010-02-07T21:06:31+00:00 false 3417 2010-02-08T02:05:14+00:00 1213 0 <a href="http://blog.eliotsykes.com/2009/10/28/how-to-use-rails-templates-in-wordpress-themes/" rel="nofollow" >Step-by-step guide</a> so you can call "rake blog_theme:update" to update your WordPress blog theme with a Rails layout. <a href="http://blog.eliotsykes.com/2009/10/28/how-to-use-rails-templates-in-wordpress-themes/" rel="nofollow" >View guide</a> 2010-02-07T17:45:58+00:00 false 3416 2010-02-07T17:45:58+00:00 1212 0 Rails default testing tasks are not particularly well-optimized for medium to large applications. I <a href="http://darwinweb.net/articles/83">optimized my test suite</a> by 30% without editing a single test. 2010-01-30T00:25:13+00:00 false 3358 2010-01-30T00:25:13+00:00 819 porras 2 Do you recognize this situation? You run a rake task (for example, rake spec), which you know it's going to take some time (e.g. 3 or 4 minutes). You say <em>"Great moment to check what's going on on Twitter"</em>. 10 minutes and 3 tabs with blog posts later, you realize you were actually waiting for a task to finish, a task which finished long before. Bye, bye, productivity!! <a href="http://github.com/porras/rakegrowl" rel="nofollow" >rakegrowl</a> tells you when your rake tasks end via Growl. 2010-01-26T08:38:22+00:00 false 3339 2010-01-26T17:23:31+00:00 0 <a href="http://github.com/pgr0ss/rake_commit_tasks" rel="nofollow" >rake_commit_tasks</a> is a set of rake tasks to help with checking in code. Now, it supports git (in addition to subversion). Read more about it: <a href="http://www.pgrs.net/2010/1/15/rake_commit_tasks-now-supports-git" rel="nofollow" >rake_commit_tasks now supports git</a> 2010-01-16T00:17:33+00:00 false 3274 2010-01-16T00:17:33+00:00 1158 0 I like to create Ruby projects, and I also like to use Hoe to manage them. With any Ruby project generator, I always hate having to add my usual boilerplate code and Rake tasks. Luckily, Hoe supports using project templates, stored in <code>~/.hoe_template</code>, with the <code>sow</code> command. For example, here is the <a href="http://github.com/postmodern/hoe_template">Hoe template</a> I use to generate new projects, with <a href="http://rspec.info/">RSpec</a> 1.2.9 and <a href="http://yardoc.org/">YARD</a> 0.5.2 setup. <b>Install</b>: <code>git clone git://github.com/postmodern/hoe_template.git ~/.hoe_template</code> <b>Use</b>: <code>sow my_project</code> 2010-01-04T06:37:48+00:00 false 3211 2010-01-05T05:51:21+00:00 488 0 Released a tool that will act as <b>Rails::Initializer's config.gem</b> and extract plugins and gems to <b>vendor/</b> like "<b>rake gems:unpack</b>". It's portable configuration where you can copy it and paste to another Rails application. You can paste your <b>.rpkg</b> file to gist/pastie/pastebin and download it and merge it with <b>rpkg merge</b> Just good for people who don't want to type: <i>sudo gem install [plugin/gem]</i> to run Rails application. Read this <a href="http://bit.ly/7WNaC8">post about Rails Package Management.</a> 2010-01-03T01:50:43+00:00 false 3206 2010-01-03T04:55:00+00:00 1094 Botanicus 0 <a href="http://github.com/botanicus/nake" rel="nofollow" >Nake</a> is a task manager inspired by Rake. As well as Rake, Nake supports dependencies, multiple task definitions, file tasks, rules etc, but it can do more. It also supports advanced arguments parsing and task configuration. Nake is also <a href="http://github.com/botanicus/nake/blob/master/bm/output.txt" rel="nofollow" >4x times faster than Rake</a>. Nake comes with a lot of useful tasks for gem building, installation and releasing, running specs and also with <code>snake</code> executable for system-wide task (similar to Sake for Rake). If you are looking for documentation, take a look at <a href="http://wiki.github.com/botanicus/nake" rel="nofollow" >Nake Wiki</a> or clone the repository and go through <a href="http://github.com/botanicus/nake/tree/master/examples" rel="nofollow" >examples</a>. 2009-12-31T19:42:22+00:00 false 3202 2010-01-02T05:18:44+00:00 Botanicus 0 I just released <a href="http://github.com/botanicus/code-cleaner#readme" rel="nofollow" >code-cleaner</a> gem which is useful for removing trailing whitespace and adding missing \n. It has advanced whitelisting & blacklisting rules, so it's clever enough to ignore your non-ruby files as well as your vendored dependencies. It can also add missing encoding declaration for Ruby 1.9 if you specify <code>--encoding=[my-enc]</code> and much more. It's distributed with <code>hooks:whitespace:install</code> task for Rake, <a href="http://github.com/wycats/thor" rel="nofollow" >Thor</a> and <a href="http://github.com/botanicus/nake" rel="nofollow" >Nake</a> which will install Git pre-commit hook for cleaning files which you are going to commit, so it's ideal for ensuring proper code quality in projects with more contributors. 2009-12-28T16:35:03+00:00 false 3192 2009-12-28T16:35:03+00:00 samoli 2 We just released <a href="http://github.com/pigment/terminal" rel="nofollow" >a collection of our terminal aliases and tweaks</a> (ss = script/server, gp = git pull, rt = rake test, nt = new tab) Also includes git branch in command prompt. Contributions welcome. 2009-12-11T12:54:58+00:00 false 3139 2009-12-11T12:54:58+00:00 1 <a href="http://github.com/ai/rake-completion">Completion Rake tasks by Tab</a> with caching, package in Ubuntu on Rails PPA and sh tests :). 2009-11-25T22:43:32+00:00 false 3083 2009-11-25T22:43:32+00:00 512 0 I just launched <a href="http://github.com/atelierconvivialite/webtranslateit/" rel="nofollow" >a Ruby on Rails plugin</a> for the web-based translation tool <a href="https://webtranslateit.com" rel="nofollow" >Web Translate It</a>. It adds rake tasks to your project to fetch your translations, as well as the ability to “autofetch” your translations files on page load. This is useful for a team of translators to test their translations on a staging environment. 2009-11-02T15:17:31+00:00 false 2957 2009-11-02T15:17:31+00:00 1061 0 <a href="http://jrubyist.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/using-proprietary-c-libraries-from-jruby/">JRubyist Dan Tylenda-Emmons</a> wrote an article about using JRuby & Java to integrate with proprietary C libraries. Includes high-level example JRuby, Java, JNI & C code, along with rake & Makefiles. 2009-10-17T23:43:52+00:00 false 2887 2009-10-17T23:44:13+00:00 912 0 <a href="http://jrubyist.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/using-jruby-warbler-rake-to-deploy-rails-apps-to-jboss/">JRubyist Dan Tylenda-Emmons posted an article</a> covering the tools he uses to fully automate his packaging and deployment to staging and production environments. He gives an example config/warble.rb file used in a real application, and also provides us with a lib/tasks/deploy.rake file that can be easily modified to work with any warbled app. 2009-10-15T16:59:36+00:00 false 2878 2009-10-15T16:59:36+00:00 912 Michael Deering 0 My repositories all ignore css files and they are generated from the SASS files with a Capistrano deploy hook. Add in Asset Packager and you end up with a small dependance chain for deployment. The dependancies are pretty easy to get past but hopefully this will save someone else a few minutes. <a href="http://mdeering.com/posts/021-rails-capistrano-and-rake-tasks-for-sass-with-asset_packager" rel="nofollow" title="Rake and Capistrano tasks for SASS and Asset Packager">Deployment solution here</a> 2009-09-23T16:51:16+00:00 false 2797 2009-09-23T17:15:04+00:00 0 <a href="http://github.com/krisleech/Git-By-Proxy/tree/master">Simple rake tasks to rope in a graphic designer who doesn't want to use version control and (S)FTP's stuff up to the server instead.</a> 2009-08-19T12:37:55+00:00 false 2646 2009-08-19T12:37:55+00:00 214 0 <a href="http://jrubyist.wordpress.com/2009/07/18/jruby-rails-rake-cron-automation/" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow">JRubyist</a> Dan Tylenda-Emmons wrote an article about combining <a href="/search/jruby" rel="nofollow" class="internal">jruby</a>, <a href="/search/rails" rel="nofollow" class="internal">rails</a>, <a href="/search/rake" rel="nofollow" class="internal">rake</a> and cron into a powerful automation tool set. This technique is both useful and pragmatic. Never worry again about running a periodic process. Let the system do the work. 2009-07-18T02:34:05+00:00 false 2519 2009-07-18T03:59:37+00:00 912 0 Spree has issued a new <a href="http://spreecommerce.com/blog/2009/07/02/spree-084-released/">patch release</a> which adds several new rake tasks designed to simplify automated deployments. This will help accommodate Rails hosting services that wish to provide Spree to their customers. Spree is an open source e-commerce platform for Ruby on Rails. 2009-07-06T14:06:39+00:00 false 2465 2009-07-06T14:06:39+00:00 817 0 <a href="http://github.com/adamsalter/sitemap_generator-plugin/tree/master" rel="nofollow" >SitemapGenerator</a> enables Google Sitemaps to be easily generated for a Rails site as a rake task, using a simple 'Rails Routes'-like DSL. Sounds pretty familiar right? (well except for the Routes-like DSL) But it's not... it actually works the way you would expect. Plus it allows you to take care of familiar issues like: gzip of Sitemap files, variable priority of links, paging/sorting links (e.g. my_list?page=3), SSL host links (e.g. https:), Rails apps which are installed on a sub-path (e.g. example.com/blog_app/) and hidden ajax routes. As stated in the docs, it does have one shortcoming though - it only supports a maximum of 2.5 billion urls, after which you're on your own. 2009-07-02T10:32:54+00:00 false 2443 2009-07-02T10:32:54+00:00 891 0 <a href="http://ramblingsonrails.com/rails-plugin-provides-rake-tasks-for-identifying-missing-specs">View the blog post</a> or <a href="http://github.com/internuity/unspecd">go directly to the plugin</a> on GitHub 2009-06-18T07:53:40+00:00 false 2391 2009-06-18T07:53:40+00:00 578 0 Learn how easy it is to generate realistic test data with Ruby using Rake and ActiveSupport: <a href="http://larrywright.me/blog/articles/215-generating-realistic-test-data-with-ruby" rel="nofollow" >Generating Realistic Test Data With Ruby</a> 2009-06-10T16:45:35+00:00 false 2362 2009-06-10T16:45:35+00:00 866 0 <a href="http://codeclimber.blogspot.com/2009/05/curse-you-rake-dbmigrate.html" rel="nofollow" >Rails Migration Memory Therapy.</a> Ever run your migrations only to have to wait for way to long because you forgot to run through that whole table in batches? Check out the article for a clever solution. 2009-05-25T17:50:21+00:00 false 2293 2009-05-25T17:50:21+00:00 849 0 Do you need/want to <b>use rake tasks from gem plugins</b> in rails v2.3.2? <a href="http://github.com/simonmenke/fix_rake_tasks_for_gem_plugins/tree">So do I</a>. And if you want to <b>simplify your controllers' rendering logic</b>? <a href="http://github.com/simonmenke/render_any/tree">Again, so do I</a>. 2009-05-07T15:39:14+00:00 false 2191 2009-05-07T15:39:14+00:00 402 0 <a href="http://trak3r.blogspot.com/2009/04/disabling-third-party-services-when.html">This simple little hack</a> - one model, migration, rake task, and cron job - will let your service adapt autonomously to the availability and responsiveness of third-party services. 2009-04-07T00:23:27+00:00 false 2021 2009-04-07T00:23:27+00:00 563 Michael Edgar 2 <a href="http://carboni.ca/projects/harsh/" rel="nofollow" >Harsh does syntax highlighting the way you think it should.</a> It supports both Haml and ERb, has a block form that makes a ton of sense, and exposes the CSS you'll need with easy rake tasks. 2009-03-28T03:18:12+00:00 false 1967 2009-03-28T03:18:12+00:00 0 <a href="http://outofti.me/post/90028018/rake-db-rollback-to-common">rake db:rollback_to_common</a> compares your migrations in your current branch to another specified branch, and then rolls back all the migrations that the branches don't have in common. 2009-03-26T14:32:33+00:00 false 1957 2009-03-26T14:32:33+00:00 567 alloy 0 <a href="http://github.com/alloy/kicker/tree/master" rel="nofollow" >Kicker</a> is a tool which allows you to watch a directory or file and execute a command whenever there are changes to the dir/file being watched. It has support for Growl as well. Example: <code>$ kicker -e "rake guides" --growl-command "open -a Safari guides/output/nested_model_forms.html" guides/source/nested_model_forms.textile</code> 2009-03-14T22:17:04+00:00 false 1892 2009-03-15T03:47:32+00:00 0 Grab <a href="http://github.com/purzelrakete/mini/tree/master">mini on github</a>. check out a writeup from the last.fm founder: <a href="http://www.metabrew.com/article/how-we-use-irc-at-lastfm/">how we use irc at last.fm</a>. mini uses sinatra for webhooks and the eventmachine LineText2 protocol to connect to irc. you can pipe stuff over netcat and get the bot to say it: <blockquote>echo "Ilovethistuffs yes .. i .. do. " | nc localhost 12345 vmstat | nc localhost 12345 echo "#musicteam,#legal,@alice New album uploaded: ..." | nc somemachine 12345 tail -f /var/log/important.log | nc somemachine 12345 </blockquote>Grab <a href="http://github.com/purzelrakete/mini/tree/master">mini on github</a>, or install with `gem install purzelrakete-mini --source=http://gems.github.com`. 2009-03-08T20:05:38+00:00 false 1853 2009-03-09T07:37:29+00:00 719 geraldbauer 0 From zero to RubyForge in 10 minutes. <a href="http://rubybook.ca/2009/03/06/build-package-and-publish-gems-with-hoe/" rel="nofollow" >More.</a> 2009-03-06T08:57:36+00:00 false 1841 2009-03-06T08:57:36+00:00 0 <a href="http://matthewfawcett.co.uk/2009/03/01/sync-your-rails-development-environment-data-with-production-or-staging/">Sync your development environment data with production script</a> - Heres how I setup a rake task to pull the database data and images from my production server to use in my development environment. 2009-03-02T20:25:45+00:00 false 1814 2009-03-02T20:25:45+00:00 714 5 Aaron Patterson (of Nokogiri fame) is <a href="http://tenderlovemaking.com/2009/02/26/we-need-a-new-version-of-rake/">calling on all Rubyists to send Jim Weirich a letter</a> to both support him and encourage him to release new version of Rake. There's some sort of deprecation issue that needs to be sorted out it seems. 2009-02-26T19:57:07+00:00 false 1794 2009-02-26T19:57:07+00:00 5 0 Use the <a href="http://github.com/jbritten/wordpress-s3-backup/tree/master">wordpress-s3-backup</a> Ruby Rake script to backup your WordPress blog -- both database and site -- to Amazon S3. 2009-01-15T23:53:01+00:00 false 1528 2009-01-15T23:53:01+00:00 608 0 A quick fix to <a href = "http://cardarella.blogspot.com/2008/11/better-rakestats-test-code-ratio.html">increase the precision of the rake:stats test/code metric</a>. 2008-11-12T16:46:26+00:00 false 1174 2008-11-12T16:46:26+00:00 417 Suspenders 0 <a href="http://giantrobots.thoughtbot.com/2008/10/21/suspenders" rel="nofollow" >Suspenders</a> is a Rails template by thoughtbot that includes shoulda, factory girl, useful rake tasks, and more. 2008-10-22T21:53:33+00:00 false 1072 2008-10-22T21:53:33+00:00 Ingemar 0 A <a href="http://pastie.org/282104">Rails oriented rake task for reek.</a> 2008-09-30T13:01:07+00:00 false 978 2008-10-01T02:02:51+00:00 0 Here's why I love ramaze: multi-app, multi-db app, ~50 lines, one file, zero proprietary plugins, rake tasks, generators, etc. No bending of the framework whatsoever. Use require, use modules, pure ruby, pure joy. :) <a href="http://ducktyped.com/2008/9/27/why-i-love-ramaze-and-what-it-could-improve">Why I love ramaze and what it could improve</a> 2008-09-27T08:01:04+00:00 false 964 2008-09-27T20:59:45+00:00 35 0 A demonstration app is available at Github: http://github.com/karmi/rails_i18n_demo_app/tree/master if you want to play with new Rails i18n API, which will be in Rails core in some time and the life would be a wee bit easier again :) The app was extracted why I was following a great tutorial at http://almosteffortless.com/2008/07/21/simple-localization-in-rails-22 one summer evening. *Don't forget* it requires rake `freeze:rails:edge:, as the README states, SRSLY! :) 2008-08-12T21:26:45+00:00 false 764 2008-08-12T21:26:45+00:00 377 0 A small Rakefile snippet takes an existing design document and makes all the necessary RSpec files. <a href="http://blog.ardekantur.com/2008/08/generating-multiple-rspec-files-from-a-design-document/">Enjoy!</a> 2008-08-09T05:56:22+00:00 false 751 2008-08-09T05:56:22+00:00 373 0 <a href="http://www.opensourcery.co.za/2008/07/17/google-analytics-plugin-for-rails-with-local-cache-support/">As mentioned here</a>, I've just added some updates to the Google Analytics Plugin for Rails that adds support for local cached copies of the legacy and new Analytics JavaScript files. It includes full support from the Rails AssetTagHelper module, so timestamps, asset id's and asset hosts are all used. A convenient rake task makes sure files are kept updated at deployment time, or via cron. 2008-07-16T22:40:41+00:00 false 637 2008-07-16T22:40:41+00:00 213 0 <a href="http://www.bioinformaticszen.com">Bioinformatics Zen</a> explains how <a href="http://www.bioinformaticszen.com/2008/05/organised-bioinformatics-experiments/">bioinformatics experiments</a> are using DataMapper and Rake in their workflow. 2008-05-24T22:33:15+00:00 false 371 2008-05-24T22:33:15+00:00 232 0 The Rails Spikes blog presents <a href="http://railspikes.com/2008/4/23/5-useful-underused-methods">5 little-known Rails methods.</a> Namely: <em>query_attribute</em>, <em>polymorphic_path</em>, <em>debug</em>, a Rake task, and <em>extract_options!</em> 2008-04-25T19:12:34+00:00 false 213 2008-04-25T19:13:20+00:00 5 0 <a href="http://rad.rubyforge.org">RAD</a> is a framework for programming the <a href="http://arduino.cc">Arduino physcial computing platform</a> using Ruby. RAD converts Ruby scripts written using a set of Rails-like conventions and helpers into C source code which can be compiled and run on the Arduino microcontroller. It also provides a set of Rake tasks for automating the compilation and upload process. 2008-04-22T21:27:33+00:00 false 182 2008-04-22T21:27:33+00:00 131