man rake (Commandes) - a ruby build program with capabilities similar to make

NAME

rake - a ruby build program with capabilities similar to make

A short usage summary.

rake options

-n,--dry-run: Do a dry run without executing actions.
-H,--help: Display this help message.
-I,--libdir=LIBDIR: Include LIBDIR in the search path for required modules.
-N--nosearch: Do not search parent directories for the Rakefile.
-P,--prereqs: Display the tasks and dependencies, then exit.
-q,--quiet: Do not log messages to standard output
-f,--rakefile=FILE: Use FILE as the rakefile.
-r,--require=MODULE: Require MODULE before executing rakefile.
-s,--silent: Like --quiet, but also suppresses the 'in directory' announcement.
-T,--tasks: Display the tasks and dependencies, then exit.
-t,--trace: Turn on invoke/execute tracing, enable full backtrace.
-h,--usage: Display usage.
-v,--verbose: Log message to standard output (default).
-V,--version: Display the program version.

Manpage provided by Adam Majer as part of the Debian's rake package. Upstream author of rake is Jim Weirich.