Quick reference and explanation of rake tasks
#Clears all cached pages rake cache:clear #Loads a schema.rb file into the database and then loads the initial database fixtures. rake db:bootstrap #Copy default theme to site theme rake db:bootstrap:copy_default_theme #Migrate the database through scripts in db/migrate. Target specific version with VERSION=x rake db:migrate #Create a db/schema.rb file that can be portably used against any DB supported by AR rake db:schema:dump #Load a schema.rb file into the database rake db:schema:load #Load initial database fixtures (in db/bootstrap/*.yml) into the current environment's database. #Load specific fixtures using FIXTURES=x,y rake db:bootstrap:load #Load fixtures into the current environment's database. #Load specific fixtures using FIXTURES=x,y rake db:fixtures:load #Clear the sessions table rake db:sessions:clear #Creates a sessions table for use with CGI::Session::ActiveRecordStore rake db:sessions:create #Dump the database structure to a SQL file rake db:structure:dump #Recreate the test database from the current environment's database schema rake db:test:clone #Recreate the test databases from the development structure rake db:test:clone_structure #Prepare the test database and load the schema rake db:test:prepare #Empty the test database rake db:test:purge #Push the latest revision into production using the release manager rake deploy #Describe the differences between HEAD and the last production release rake diff_from_last_deploy #Build the app HTML Files rake doc:app #Remove rdoc products rake doc:clobber_app #Remove plugin documentation rake doc:clobber_plugins #Remove rdoc products rake doc:clobber_rails #Generate documation for all installed plugins rake doc:plugins #Build the rails HTML Files rake doc:rails #Force a rebuild of the RDOC files rake doc:reapp #Force a rebuild of the RDOC files rake doc:rerails #Freeze rails edge rake edge #Truncates all *.log files in log/ to zero bytes rake log:clear #Lock to latest Edge Rails or a specific revision with REVISION=X (ex: REVISION=4021) or # a tag with TAG=Y (ex: TAG=rel_1-1-0) rake rails:freeze:edge #Lock this application to the current gems (by unpacking them into vendor/rails) rake rails:freeze:gems #Unlock this application from freeze of gems or edge and return to a fluid use of system gems rake rails:unfreeze #Update both configs, scripts and public/javascripts from Rails rake rails:update #Update config/boot.rb from your current rails install rake rails:update:configs #Update your javascripts from your current rails install rake rails:update:javascripts #Add new scripts to the application script/ directory rake rails:update:scripts #Execute a specific action using the release manager rake remote_exec #Rollback to the release before the current release in production rake rollback #Enumerate all available deployment tasks rake show_deploy_tasks #Report code statistics (KLOCs, etc) from the application rake stats #Test all units and functionals rake test #Run tests for functionalsdb:test:prepare rake test:functionals #Run tests for integrationdb:test:prepare rake test:integration #Run tests for pluginsenvironment rake test:plugins #Run tests for recentdb:test:prepare rake test:recent #Run tests for uncommitteddb:test:prepare rake test:uncommitted #Run tests for unitsdb:test:prepare rake test:units #Clears all files and directories in tmp/cache rake tmp:cache:clear #Clear session, cache, and socket files from tmp/ rake tmp:clear #Creates tmp directories for sessions, cache, and sockets rake tmp:create #Clears all files in tmp/pids rake tmp:pids:clear #Clears all files in tmp/sessions rake tmp:sessions:clear #Clears all files in tmp/sockets rake tmp:sockets:clear #Copies the latest dialog.js to the application's public directory rake update_dialog_helper
-Matt
23 May 2011