Sake. Best served warm.

Sick of copy & pasting your badass custom Rakefiles into every new Rails app you start? Fed up with writing one-off admistrative scripts and leaving them everything?

No longer. Sake is a tool which helps you maintain a set of system level Rake tasks.

Get started:

  $ sudo gem install sake
  $ sake -h

Show all Sake tasks (but no local Rake tasks), optionally only those matching a pattern.

  $ sake -T
  $ sake -T db

Show tasks in a Rakefile, optionally only those matching a pattern.

  $ sake -T file.rake
  $ sake -T file.rake db

Install tasks from a Rakefile, optionally specifying specific tasks.

  $ sake -i Rakefile
  $ sake -i Rakefile db:remigrate
  $ sake -i Rakefile db:remigrate routes

Examine the source of a Rake task.

  $ sake -e routes

You can also examine the source of a task not yet installed.

  $ sake -e Rakefile db:remigrate

Uninstall an installed task. (Can be passed one or more tasks.)

  $ sake -u db:remigrate

Post a task to Pastie!

  $ sake -p routes

Invoke a Sake task.

  $ sake <taskname>

Some Sake tasks may depend on tasks which exist only locally.

For instance, you may have a db:version sake task which depends on the ‘environment’ Rake task. The ‘environment’ Rake task is one defined by Rails to load its environment. This db:version task will work when your current directory is within a Rails app because Sake knows how to find Rake tasks. This task will not work, however, in any other directory (unless a task named ‘environment’ indeed exists).

Sake can also serve its tasks over a network by launching a Mongrel handler. Pass the -S switch to start Sake in server mode.

  $ sake -S

You can, of course, specify a port.

  $ sake -S -p 1111

You can also daemonize your server for long term serving fun.

  $ sake -S -d

Special Thanks

  * Ryan Davis
  * Eric Hodel
  * Josh Susser
  * Brian Donovan
  * Zack Chandler
  * Dr Nic Williams

Author

>> Chris Wanstrath

> chris@ozmm.org