Help with rake

[Jeremy Woertink]

Can anyone tell me exactly how rake works? How does it know what to do?


Also, when I run rake db:anything, it changes my schema file to an
autogenerated format, can anyone tell me where it gets the info for
this?


Thanks

 

[Eric Hodel]

Can anyone tell me exactly how rake works? How does it know what to
do?

Jim Weirich's site onestepback.org has several articles on how rake
does what it does:

http://www.google.com/search?q=site:onestepback.org+rake

If you want the short answer, it builds a dependency tree, performs a
topological sort, then runs things in order until done.

Also, when I run rake db:anything, it changes my schema file to an
autogenerated format, can anyone tell me where it gets the info for
this?

Ask the Rails list.

 

[Jeremy Woertink]

Thanks for the help.

 

[tim.j.stewart]

Can anyone tell me exactly how rake works? How does it know what to do?

I found this article to be a great introduction to rake:

http://www.martinfowler.com/articles/rake.html