Installation

First, clone the sake-tasks repo:

git clone git://github.com/drnic/sake-tasks.git

Or replace ‘drnic’ with your github username if you have forked the sake-tasks repo.

Then install the sake tasks (this step is repeatable, even if one or more tasks are already exist; that is, any pre-existing tasks with the same name will be overridden)

rake install

To see your list of resulting tasks:

sake -T

What are Sake tasks/recipes?

It’s the marvelous Sake, system-wide Rake.
https://errtheblog.com/posts/60-sake-bomb

Current tasks

The following sake tasks are installed:

sake check:erb # Find all .erb or .rhtml files in the current directory tree and report any syntax errors sake check:ruby # Find all .rb files in the current directory tree and report any syntax errors sake check:yaml # Find all .yml files in the current directory tree and report any syntax errors sake git:analyze:commits:flogfrequent # Flog the most commonly revised files in the git history sake git:close # Delete the current branch and switch back to master sake git:manpages:install # Install man pages for current git version sake git:open # Create a new branch off master sake git:pull # Pull new commits from the repository sake git:push # Push all changes to the repository sake git:status # Show the current status of the checkout sake git:topic # Create a new topic branch sake git:update # Pull new commits from the repository sake mysql:dump # Dump the database to FILE (depends on mysql:params) sake mysql:load # Load the database from FILE (depends on mysql:params) sake ssh:installpublickey # Install your public key on a remote server.

Adding new recipes/tasks

The installer rake task rake install works by assuming that each .sake file contains one sake task. This allows it to uninstall the task from sake first, and then re-install it (sake barfs if you attempt to reinstall an existing task).

So, to create a task foo:bar:baz, you’ll need to add a folder foo/bar and create a file baz.sake inside it. Within that file you would then specify your task using namespace and task method calls:

namespace 'foo' do
  namespace 'bar' do
    desc "This task ..."
    task :baz do
    end
  end
end

TextMate users

The latest Ruby.tmbundle on github includes a task command that generates the above namespace/task snippet based on the path + file name. That is, inside the foo/bar/baz.sake file, make sure your grammar is ‘Ruby’ or ‘Ruby on Rails’ and then type “task” and press TAB. The above snippet will be generated ready for you to specify your task.

Authors

• Luke Melia - many git + mysql + ssh tasks
• Dr Nic Williams - repeatable installer rake task