Test-Driven Re-implementation with Josh Thompson
Yesterday Josh Thompson, one of my Rubber Duck Session clients, proposed a novel idea for deliberately practicing coding skills: take a popular open-source project with a good test suite, delete…
New book! Birthday sale!
TL;DR: New book project, The Rake Field Manual. Today only, buy early access to it at half-price ($12.50) with coupon code HAPPY0X22. Or get any of my other books and videos at half price with…
Rake Part 2: File Lists
How to pick out all the files we want, and none we don’t, using Rake’s FileList class.
Learn advanced Rake in 7 episodes
Rake is ubiquitous in Ruby-land, but its power is often under-appreciated and under-used. Over the course of the past two weeks I’ve been posting a series of RubyTapas videos I…
Rake Part 4: Pathmap
Continuing our series on Rake, today we look at one of its most powerful (and little-known!) features
Rake Part 3: Rules
In this episode, we teach Rake how to intelligently discover the right source file for a given target.