Videos tagged with Rake

In this episode we are going to take a look at how to use Rake in order to help refactor your MSBuild Scripts.We will use Rake in order to allow you to build out smaller targets in MSBuild as well as to run external features which are supported by Rake.

This is the first of three screencasts where we begin to look at a few new Rails libraries to help you scale your Rails applications. In this first episode we take a look at Bullet, which will help you optimize your SQL queries by giving you growl notifications when you’re not using eager loading properly or should be using a counter cache. Then there’s Rails Indexes which provides ...

Author: Simon Chiang

In this talk I will present a task application framework called Tap. Tap on the surface acts like a supercharged rake, with similar declaration syntax and ease of use from the command line. On closer inspection, rake and tap address separate problems in separate domains that overlap in the simplest cases. Tap facilitates: imperative workflows task configuration, inputs, documentation, and testi...

rush (http://rush.heroku.com/) as defined by the website is: a replacement for the unix shell (bash, zsh, etc) which uses pure Ruby syntax. Grep through files, find and kill processes, copy files - everything you do in the shell, now in Ruby. In this talk you will learn 2 things. First we will go over some rush basics. Like globbing, search and replace, naming files, and processes. Second we wi...

This talk would be a case study in using Ruby to deploy, monitor, and manage a cluster of servers running in the Amazon Web Services virtual cloud. The example cluster is operated by OtherInbox.com, a consumer-driven website that automates email tasks and spam blocking. Every system administration task imaginable is carried out using Ruby, which means the developers can enjoy all of Ruby’...

In need of a background process? You may be able to accomplish this with a simple Rake task. See how in this episode.

Brian Chapados talks about using ruby & rake to build a simple workflow to coordinate external processes.

In this screencast you will learn about Sake and how to use it in Rails projects. Sake allows you to install rake tasks once and use it across all Rails projects.

Summary Rich Kilmer explains Domain Specific Languages and how they help working with domain experts. The presentation includes an overview of styles of external and internal DSLs in Ruby and explains implicit and explicit styles, complete with advantages and trade-offs of either approach. The presentation is rounded off with a look at imperative and declarative styles of DSLs. Bio Rich Kilmer ...