NAME¶

rake — Ruby Make

SYNOPSIS¶

DESCRIPTION¶

Rake is a simple ruby(1) build program with capabilities similar to the regular make(1) command.

Rake has the following features:

• Rakefiles (Rake's version of Makefiles) are completely defined in standard Ruby syntax. No XML files to edit. No quirky Makefile syntax to worry about (is that a tab or a space?).
• Users can specify tasks with prerequisites.
• Rake supports rule patterns to synthesize implicit tasks.
• Flexible FileLists that act like arrays but know about manipulating file names and paths.
• A library of prepackaged tasks to make building rakefiles easier.

OPTIONS¶

--version

Display the program version.

-C

 

--classic-namespace

Put Task and FileTask in the top level namespace

-D [PATTERN]

 

--describe [PATTERN]

Describe the tasks (matching optional PATTERN), then exit.

-E CODE

 

--execute-continue CODE

Execute some Ruby code, then continue with normal task processing.

-G

 

--no-system

 

--nosystem

Use standard project Rakefile search paths, ignore system wide rakefiles.

-I LIBDIR

 

--libdir LIBDIR

Include LIBDIR in the search path for required modules.

-N

 

--no-search

 

--nosearch

Do not search parent directories for the Rakefile.

-P

 

--prereqs

Display the tasks and dependencies, then exit.

-R RAKELIBDIR

 

--rakelib RAKELIBDIR

 

--rakelibdir RAKELIBDIR

Auto-import any .rake files in RAKELIBDIR. (default is rakelib )

-T [PATTERN]

 

--tasks [PATTERN]

Display the tasks (matching optional PATTERN) with descriptions, then exit.

-e CODE

 

--execute CODE

Execute some Ruby code and exit.

-f FILE

 

--rakefile FILE

Use FILE as the rakefile.

-h

 

--help

Prints a summary of options.

-g

 

--system

Using system wide (global) rakefiles (usually ~/.rake/*.rake ).

-n

 

--dry-run

Do a dry run without executing actions.

-p CODE

 

--execute-print CODE

Execute some Ruby code, print the result, then exit.

-q

 

--quiet

Do not log messages to standard output.

-r MODULE

 

--require MODULE

Require MODULE before executing rakefile.

-s

 

--silent

Like --quiet, but also suppresses the 'in directory' announcement.

-t

 

--trace

Turn on invoke/execute tracing, enable full backtrace.

-v

 

--verbose

Log message to standard output (default).

--rules

Trace the rules resolution.

SEE ALSO¶

ruby(1) make(1)

http://rake.rubyforge.org/

REPORTING BUGS¶

Bugs, features requests and other issues can be logged at <http://onestepback.org/redmine/projects/show/rake>.

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AUTHOR¶

Rake is written by Jim Weirich ⟨jim@weirichhouse.org⟩