Ruby on Rails/Built-In Rails Tools

There are a wide variety of command-line tools which play a role in the development of a Rails application.

Generators

Generators are scripts which create stub code for new models, controllers, migrations and much more.

• Generators
• Make a generator

Rake

Rake is a build tool which is widely used in Ruby applications. Rails uses Rake tasks for many different things.

• Convenient Rake tasks
• What is Rake anyway?
• Make your own rake tasks
• Command-Line Reference