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Creating Long-Lived Web Apps with Ruby on Rails

Rake Tasks

Explore how to use Rake tasks to automate processes and perform ad-hoc actions in Ruby on Rails applications. Understand best practices for organizing tasks and their role in maintaining clear, auditable automation within your app beyond the web interface.

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Sometimes, we need to initiate some logic without having a web view to trigger it. This is where Rake tasksUser-defined rake tasks live inside the lib/tasks folder. Any file ending in .rake will be automatically picked up and loaded by Rails. come in. There are two problems in managing Rake tasks:

  • Naming/organizing
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