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Thursday, August 28 2008

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rake, rake, rake your boat

On the latest Rails Podcast I spoke with Jim Weirich. Jim is a great person and a fantastic programmer. One of his contributions to the Ruby community is the rake build system.

You can use rake to automate all kinds of tasks. And of course, Rails takes advantage of it in a big way. Last summer I automated a few tasks by adding files to the ‘script’ directory. I thought I was being clever by doing a ‘require’ on ‘environment.rb’ and accessing my models that way....

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