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    Rake Task Management Essentials
    Rake Task Management Essentials
    Rake Task Management Essentials
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    Rake Task Management Essentials

    By Andrey Koleshko

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    A stepbystep and interactive approach explaining the Rake essentials along with code examples and advanced features.

    If you are a developer who is acquainted with the Ruby language and want to speed up writing the code concerned with files, then this book is for you. To start reading this book, basic Ruby knowledge is required; however, a huge amount of experience with the language is not necessary.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPackt Publishing
    Release dateApr 21, 2014
    ISBN9781783280780
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      Rake Task Management Essentials - Andrey Koleshko

      Table of Contents

      Rake Task Management Essentials

      Credits

      About the Author

      Acknowledgements

      About the Reviewers

      www.PacktPub.com

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      Preface

      What this book covers

      What you need for this book

      Who this book is for

      Conventions

      Reader feedback

      Customer support

      Downloading the example code

      Errata

      Piracy

      Questions

      1. 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

      Multiple tasks definitions

      Passing arguments to the tasks

      The first alternative

      The second variant

      The structure of a Rake project

      Using the import method to load other Rakefiles

      Running rake tasks from other tasks

      The code conventions of Rake

      Summary

      2. 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

      Using the FileList module functionality to collect the files

      Using pathmap to transform file lists

      Introducing the FileUtils module

      A practical example of automatically generating a config file

      Summary

      3. 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

      Setting up a project

      The cleaning tasks

      Summary

      5. 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

      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

      Introducing Rake's integration with Rails

      Custom rake tasks in a Rails project

      Recurrent running of tasks

      Summary

      8. Testing Rake Tasks

      The need for tests

      Writing tests for rake tasks

      Summary

      9. Continuous Integration

      Introducing Jenkins

      Setting up Jenkins

      Configuring Jenkins to run rake tasks

      Summary

      10. Relentless Automation

      Examples of Rake being used by famous gems

      The pain of task execution

      Sinatra using Rake to run tests

      Sinatra using Rake to generate documentation

      Capistrano extending the Rake implementation

      Other examples of Sinatra using Rake

      Thor – the next generation of Rake

      Summary

      Index

      Rake Task Management Essentials

      Rake Task Management Essentials

      Copyright © 2014 Packt Publishing

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      Credits

      Author

      Andrey Koleshko

      Reviewers

      Mario Miguel Agüero Obando

      Stuart Ellis

      Avinasha Sastry

      Commissioning Editor

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      Acquisition Editor

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      About the Author

      Andrey Koleshko had his first touch with programming while at school, when he worked on Pascal. He had been solving basic algorithmic tasks. The first programming language he used at the beginning of his career was Java. He worked with this language for a year and then migrated to the Ruby language, which he worked with for the next four years. Of these four years, he worked with Altoros for three. He had an amazing time there, learning the language and technologies deeply.

      Currently, he works at a local cloud hosting company. The company change provided him with the opportunity to deal with a lot of challenges concerning application architecture, code testing, debugging, and deployment processes. As a result, he has been able to contribute to some famous Ruby libraries. More detailed information about his contributions can be found on GitHub at http://github.com/ka8725.

      He mostly works with the Rails framework. He openly shares all of his thoughts and his most interesting experiences through his blog at http://railsguides.net. He has recently started to learn the Python programming language.

      He lives in Minsk, Belarus, and likes to watch and play sports such as soccer, ping-pong, and volleyball. He also likes travelling to tropical countries with his wife. Teaching people gives him immense pleasure.

      Acknowledgements

      I'm thankful to many people who've helped me write this book. But firstly, I would like to thank the publishers who offered me an opportunity to write this book. If it wasn't for them, who knows what would have happened with this book. Thankfully, the Packt Publishing team was very supportive and helped me deliver this useful book with high quality. A big thanks goes to Sergey Avseyev, who always supported me in the technical and difficult parts of the book. He also made me believe that I could write this book from scratch. I would also like to thank Lee Hambley, who shared his experience with me, and as a result, the last chapter of the book is more hands-on. I have no doubt now that Rake has a very successful future despite other competitive tools.

      I'm grateful to my wife for allowing me to allocate enough time to write the chapters. Lastly, I would like to acknowledge the creator of Rake, Jim Weirich. He created a really great and powerful tool. Unfortunately, he won't be with us to see this book published. He passed away recently. But anyway, I believe that he would be happy that his creation helped develop this book.

      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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