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(Ruby) Howto set up a Rake task to start and stop the Selenium-RC server

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:01:08 GMT

(Ruby) Howto set up a Rake task that passes a parameter to a shell command or script

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:48:53 GMT

(Ruby) Howto set up a Rake task to run Cucumber features and generate reports

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:41:45 GMT

Note that Rake is slower than just running `cucumber`

(Ruby) Howto set up a Rake task to update installed gems and gem sources

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:26:09 GMT

Rails has a task like this, but I couldn't locate it, and it wasn't hard to write my own, and mine worked too :|

(Ruby) Howto set up a Rake task to clean out old temp files and logfiles

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:56:37 GMT

If you don't see a particular extension in the CLEAN list, test before you add it. Common temporary file extensions like `~` are cleaned by default.

(Ruby) Howto set up a Rake task to generate RDoc documentation

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:42:54 GMT

For the `--diagram` and `--fileboxes` options to work you need [GraphViz](http://www.graphviz.org/) otherwise, delete those.

(Ruby) Howto set up a Rake task to run RSpec spec docs

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:23:31 GMT

A `rake :spec` task, is created by default just from including the RSpec rake module. The way to *stop RSpec tasks from failing* the entire Rake job when a test barfs, is by setting `fail_on_error` to false.