Ruby Cookbook

Recipe 19.1. Automatically Running Unit Tests Credit: Pat Eyler Problem You want to make it easy to run your project's unit test suite. You also want the tests to run automatically before you do a new release of your project. Solutio...

Recipe 19.2. Automatically Generating Documentation Credit: Stefan Lang Problem You want to automatically create HTML pages from the RDoc formatted comments in your code, and from other RDoc formatted files. Solution Within your Rak...

Recipe 19.3. Cleaning Up Generated Files Credit: Stefan Lang Problem You want to clean up files that aren't actually part of your project: generated files, backup files, and so on. Solution Within your Rakefile, require the rake/clean...

Recipe 19.4. Automatically Building a Gem Credit: Stefan Lang Problem You want to automatically build a gem package for your application or library whenever you do a release. Solution Require the rake/gempackagetask library within y...

Recipe 19.5. Gathering Statistics About Your Code Credit: Stefan Lang Problem You want to gather statistics about your Ruby project, like the total number of lines of code. Solution Here's a class that parses Ruby source files and g...

Recipe 19.6. Publishing Your Documentation Credit: Stefan Lang Problem You want to automatically update your project's web site on RubyForge (or some other site) with generated documentation or custom pages. Solution As seen in Reci...

Recipe 19.7. Running Multiple Tasks in Parallel Problem Your build process takes too long to run. Rake finishes copying one set of files only to start copying another set. You could save time by running these tasks in parallel, instead of ...