Rake for Rails Developers One of the most common tasks on a big rails project is to add a new rake task. Rake is an important tool, used by lots of different groups in the ruby community. It's used by rails, but I'm pretty sure it pre-dates rails. It certainly doesn't feel like rails. Versions For this blog post, I'm using rake 0.9.2.2, rails 3.1.3 and ruby 1.9.3-p0. I hope that's all current enou