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Ruby on Rails/Built-In Rails Tools

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

Generators

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

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