NAME

rake — make-like build utility for Ruby

SYNOPSIS

rake [-f rakefile] [options] targets ...

DESCRIPTION

rake is a make(1)-like build utility for Ruby. Tasks and dependencies are specified in standard Ruby syntax.

OPTIONS

-m, --multitask: Treat all tasks as multitasks.
-B, --build-all: Build all prerequisites, including those which are up-to-date.
-j, --jobs num_jobs: Specifies the maximum number of tasks to execute in parallel (default is number of CPU cores + 4).

Modules

-I, --libdir libdir: Include libdir in the search path for required modules.
-r, --require module: Require module before executing rakefile.

Rakefile location

-f, --rakefile filename: Use filename as the rakefile to search for.
-N, --no-search, --nosearch: Do not search parent directories for the Rakefile.
-G, --no-system, --nosystem: Use standard project Rakefile search paths, ignore system wide rakefiles.
-R, --rakelib rakelibdir, --rakelibdir rakelibdir: Auto-import any .rake files in rakelibdir (default is ‘rakelib’)
-g, --system: Use system-wide (global) rakefiles (usually ~/.rake/*.rake).

Debugging

--backtrace=out: Enable full backtrace. out can be stderr (default) or stdout.
-t, --trace=out: Turn on invoke/execute tracing, enable full backtrace. out can be stderr (default) or stdout.
--suppress-backtrace pattern: Suppress backtrace lines matching regexp pattern. Ignored if --trace is on.
--rules: Trace the rules resolution.
-n, --dry-run: Do a dry run without executing actions.
-T, --tasks [pattern]: Display the tasks (matching optional pattern) with descriptions, then exit.
-D, --describe [pattern]: Describe the tasks (matching optional pattern), then exit.
-W, --where [pattern]: Describe the tasks (matching optional pattern), then exit.
-P, --prereqs: Display the tasks and dependencies, then exit.
-e, --execute code: Execute some Ruby code and exit.
-p, --execute-print code: Execute some Ruby code, print the result, then exit.
-E, --execute-continue code: Execute some Ruby code, then continue with normal task processing.

Information

-v, --verbose: Log message to standard output.
-q, --quiet: Do not log messages to standard output.
-s, --silent: Like --quiet, but also suppresses the ‘in directory’ announcement.
-X, --no-deprecation-warnings: Disable the deprecation warnings.
--comments: Show commented tasks only
-A, --all: Show all tasks, even uncommented ones (in combination with -T or -D)
--job-stats [level]: Display job statistics. If level is ‘history’, displays a complete job list.
-V, --version: Display the program version.
-h, -H, --help: Display a help message.

AUTHORS

rake was written by Jim Weirich <jim@weirichhouse.org>.

This manual was created by Caitlin Matos <caitlin.matos@zoho.com> for the Debian project (but may be used by others). It was inspired by the manual by Jani Monoses <jani@iv.ro> for the Ubuntu project.