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This is a basic demonstration of adding a rake task to Ruby on Rails. Some of the same principles apply to Rake in general. You also see how to call out to the command line and how to convert ERB and HTML to HAML.

Because I’m going to be testing in cucumber sections of the site that require a user to be logged in, I decided to get it out of the way. So, in this video, I write a cucumber feature to test login and round it off with a few tests on the devise generated user model [...]

Creating new gems is easy with the `bundle gem` command. In this episode I will walk you through how this works.

Thor is an alternative to Rake. It has better support for command line arguments and provides a way to add global scripts.

It is quite easy to pass parameters to Rake tasks by using bracketed options.

Do you know how to make Capistrano tasks? See how to change default deployment behavior with custom tasks in this episode.

In need of a background process? You may be able to accomplish this with a simple Rake task. See how in this episode.

Brian Chapados talks about using ruby & rake to build a simple workflow to coordinate external processes. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

Rake is one of those tools that you don't realize how powerful it is until you start using it. In this episode you will learn how to create custom rake tasks and improve them by using rake features.