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RAKE(1) BSD General Commands Manual RAKE(1)

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.

SEE ALSO

The complete documentation for rake has been installed at /usr/share/doc/rake-doc/html/index.html. It is also available online at https://ruby.github.io/rake

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.

rake 11.2.2 June 12, 2016 rake 11.2.2

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