Packt RakeTask Management Essentials 2014 Retail [EpuB]

TITLE: RAKE TASK MANAGEMENT ESSENTIALS
PUBLISHER: PACKT LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
LINK: http://is.gd/s0FDaT RELEASE TYPE: RETAIL
FORMAT: EPUB RELEASE DATE: 2014.07.02
ISBN: 9781783280773 STORE DATE: 2014
SAVED.MONEY: 21 DOLLAR DISKCOUNT: 01 x 05MB
AUTHOR: ANDREY KOLESHKO

BOOK

Deploy, test, and build software to solve real-world automation
challenges using Rake

Overview
* Solve real-world automation challenges with human readable
code. * Build or deploy an application package quickly. *
Easy-to-follow instructions to speed up tasks and manage them
efficiently
In Detail

Rake is a build automation tool written in Ruby. It allows you to
specify tasks and describe dependencies as well as group tasks in
a namespace. Rake uses Ruby's anonymous function blocks to define
various tasks, allowing the use of the Ruby syntax. Rake's goal
is to automate build processes quickly and expressively

"Rake Task Management Essentials" is a practical guide that
covers the latest techniques in building, testing, and debugging
rake tasks to solve real-world automation challenges. The book
starts with a basic knowledge of Rake, allowing you to solve
repetitive tasks. Then it provides you with information about
processes performed with fi les, which is crucial for
understanding the application of the tool. It includes
demonstrations to show you how tasks can be run in parallel and
how they can be applied in practice. Thereafter, it integrates
Rake with Ruby with the help of simple and clear examples. By the
end of this book, you will know how Rake has changed the
programming world, especially in the Ruby community

What you will learn from this book
* Use the rake command-line tool efficiently * Learn Rake's
language to write clear custom tasks * Run tasks in parallel to
speed up the overall runtime of the tasks used * Work with file
transformations to manage file tasks * Refactor a Rake project
with the rules, prerequisites, and other technical features built
into Rake tools * Configure a scheduler to run recurring tasks on
a server * Configure continuous integration with Rake using a
Jenkins example * Integrate Rake with the Rails web framework to
write Rails-specific rake tasks
Approach

A step-by-step and interactive approach explaining the Rake
essentials along with code examples and advanced features

Who this book is written for

If you are a developer who is acquainted with the Ruby language
and want to speed up writing the code concerned with fi les, then
this book is for you. To start reading this book, a basic
knowledge of Ruby is required; however, an extensive experience
with the language is not necessary