Rails and Rake Commands

Here is a list of various important commands supported by Rake:

• rake about - List versions of all Rails frameworks and the environment
• rake assets:clean[keep] - 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 clean - Cleanup temporary, log and backup files
• 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. Load specific fixtures using FIXTURES=x,y
• rake db:migrate - Migrate the database through scripts in db/migrate. Target specific version with VERSION=x
• rake db:migrate:status - Display status of migrations
• rake db:remigrate - Migrate schema to version 0 and back up again
• 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 db:sessions:clear - Clear the sessions table.
• rake db:sessions:create - Creates a sessions table for use with CGI::Session::ActiveRecordStore.
• rake db:structure:dump - Dump the database structure to a SQL file.
• 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 rails:template - Applies the template supplied by LOCATION=(/path/to/template) or URL
• rake routes - Print out all defined routes in match order, with names
• rake spec - Run all specs in spec directory (excluding plugin specs)
• rake spec:features - Run the code examples in spec/features
• rake spree:install:migrations - Copy migrations from spree to application
• rake spree:reset_taxon_permalinks - Resets all taxon permalinks
• rake spree_api:install:migrations - Copy migrations from spree_api to application
• rake spree_auth:admin:create - Create admin username and password
• rake spree_auth:install:migrations - Copy migrations from spree_auth to application
• 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 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