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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
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/