Basic Rake by Jim Weirich

Anyone who develops with Rails uses the Rake tool all the time. Rake will run your tests, migrate your database, and precompile your assets. But did you know you can define and build your own Rake tasks? This short talk will cover the basics of using Rake and writing simple automation tasks to make your development process smother.

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[skatopher]

jim is the man, he explains concepts with amazing clarity i love his talks, also ty confreaks for making these so easily available

[brentgreeff]

Dependency graphs are really complicated when visualised as graphs. Flattening it like this is quite brilliant.

[vnluc]

He is nice. Said to know he passed away.

[YashArya]

"Rake will run as if it was started in the project top directory."

So like git?

[Strategiusz]

2:35 nobody laughs. The political correctness gone mad