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A Rake -T output sample.
$ rake -T
rake about # List versions of all Rails frameworks and the environment
rake assets:clean # Remove old compiled assets
rake assets:clobber # Remove compiled assets
rake assets:environment # Load asset compile environment
rake assets:precompile # Compile all the assets named in config.assets.precompile
rake db:create # Create the database from DATABASE_URL or config/database.yml for the current Rails.env (use db:create:all to create all dbs in the config)
rake db:drop # Drops the database using DATABASE_URL or the current Rails.env (use db:drop:all to drop all databases)
rake db:fixtures:load # Load fixtures into the current environment's database
rake db:migrate # Migrate the database (options: VERSION=x, VERBOSE=false, SCOPE=blog)
rake db:migrate:status # Display status of migrations
rake db:rollback # Rolls the schema back to the previous version (specify steps w/ STEP=n)
rake db:schema:cache:clear # Clear a db/schema_cache.dump file
rake db:schema:cache:dump # Create a db/schema_cache.dump file
rake db:schema:dump # Create a db/schema.rb file that can be portably used against any DB supported by AR
rake db:schema:load # Load a schema.rb file into the database
rake db:seed # Load the seed data from db/seeds.rb
rake db:setup # Create the database, load the schema, and initialize with the seed data (use db:reset to also drop the db first)
rake db:structure:dump # Dump the database structure to db/structure.sql
rake db:version # Retrieves the current schema version number
rake doc:app # Generate docs for the app -- also available doc:rails, doc:guides (options: TEMPLATE=/rdoc-template.rb, TITLE="Custom Title")
rake log:clear # Truncates all *.log files in log/ to zero bytes (specify which logs with LOGS=test,development)
rake middleware # Prints out your Rack middleware stack
rake notes # Enumerate all annotations (use notes:optimize, :fixme, :todo for focus)
rake notes:custom # Enumerate a custom annotation, specify with ANNOTATION=CUSTOM
rake rails:template # Applies the template supplied by LOCATION=(/path/to/template) or URL
rake rails:update # Update configs and some other initially generated files (or use just update:configs, update:bin, or update:application_controller)
rake routes # Print out all defined routes in match order, with names
rake secret # Generate a cryptographically secure secret key (this is typically used to generate a secret for cookie sessions)
rake stats # Report code statistics (KLOCs, etc) from the application
rake test # Runs test:units, test:functionals, test:integration together
rake test:all # Run tests quickly by merging all types and not resetting db
rake test:all:db # Run tests quickly, but also reset db
rake test:recent # Run tests for {:recent=>["test:deprecated", "test:prepare"]} / Deprecated; Test recent changes
rake test:uncommitted # Run tests for {:uncommitted=>["test:deprecated", "test:prepare"]} / Deprecated; Test changes since last checkin (only Subversion and Git)
rake time:zones:all # Displays all time zones, also available: time:zones:us, time:zones:local -- filter with OFFSET parameter, e.g., OFFSET=-6
rake tmp:clear # Clear session, cache, and socket files from tmp/ (narrow w/ tmp:sessions:clear, tmp:cache:clear, tmp:sockets:clear)
rake tmp:create # Creates tmp directories for sessions, cache, sockets, and pids
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