Rake task management essentials : deploy, test, and build software to solve real-world automation challenges using rake / Andrey Koleshko ; Kim Nousaine, cover image.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Koleshko, Andrey, author.

Contributor:

Nousaine, Kim, cover designer.

Series:

Community expertise distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Object-oriented programming (Computer science).

Ruby (Computer program language).

Ruby (Langage de programmation).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (122 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England : Packt Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A step-by-step and interactive approach explaining the Rake essentials along with code examples and advanced features. If you are a developer who is acquainted with the Ruby language and want to speed up writing the code concerned with files, then this book is for you. To start reading this book, basic Ruby knowledge is required; however, a huge amount of experience with the language is not necessary.

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; Acknowledgements; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: The Software Task Management Tool - Rake; Installing Rake; Introducing rake tasks; The command-line arguments; Using global Rakefiles to run tasks anywhere; Defining custom rake tasks; Task dependencies - prerequisites; Multiple tasks definitions; Passing arguments to the tasks; The structure of a Rake project; Using the import method to load other Rakefiles; Running rake tasks from other tasks; The code conventions of Rake; Summary

Chapter 2: Working with FilesUsing file tasks to work with files; The characteristics of the file task dependencies; Creating a folder with the directory method; Using Rake's file utilities; Using the FileList module functionality to collect the files; Using pathmap to transform file lists; Introducing the FileUtils module; A practical example of automatically generating a config file; Summary; Chapter 3: Working with Rules; Understanding the duplication of the file tasks; Using a rule to get rid of the duplicated file tasks; Detecting a source for the rule dynamically

Using a regular expression to match more tasksSummary; Chapter 4: Cleaning Up a Build; Setting up a project; The cleaning tasks; Summary; Chapter 5: Running Tasks in Parallel; Defining tasks with parallel prerequisites; Thread safety of multitasks; Multiple task definitions with a common prerequisite; Applying multitasks in practice; Summary; Chapter 6: Debugging Rake Tasks; Using command-line arguments for debugging; Getting a dependency's resolution with

prereqs; Using the

rules option to trace the rule resolution; Using the Ruby approach to debug a Rake project; Summary

Chapter 7: Integration with RailsIntroducing Rake's integration with Rails; Custom rake tasks in a Rails project; Recurrent running of tasks; Summary; Chapter 8: Testing Rake Tasks; The need for tests; Writing tests for rake tasks; Summary; Chapter 9: Continuous Integration; Introducing Jenkins; Setting up Jenkins; Configuring Jenkins to run rake tasks; Summary; Chapter 10: Relentless Automation; Examples of Rake being used by famous gems; The pain of task execution; Sinatra using Rake to run tests; Sinatra using Rake to generate documentation; Capistrano extending the Rake implementation

Other examples of Sinatra using RakeThor - the next generation of Rake; Summary; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 29, 2014).

ISBN:

9781783280780

1783280786

OCLC:

878109237