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Useful rake tasks in Rails

15 Jun, 2014
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When inside any directory with a Rakefile, you can bring up the list of available rake tasks with rake -T

In Rails projects everyone is used to running rake tasks related to database migration and asset management, but here are some tasks I’ve found useful which you might not be aware of:

  • rake notes - Lists all the comments in your application beginning with annotations like # TODO and # FIXME
  • rake log:clear - Clears out all of your log files (which can tend to get rather large if you’re regularly developing and running tests)
  • rake routes - Prints out all the routes defined by your config/routes.rb file. Very useful for debugging
  • rake tmp:clear/rake tmp:create - Clear out all your tempfiles (sessions, caches etc.) / create the folders for those tempfiles.
  • rake secret - “Generate a cryptographically secure secret key” - the recommended way to generate the secret token for your applications, but useful anywhere you need a long random key