# Noob question -- where are rake files/tasks/scripts located **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [August 1, 2008, 11:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/noob-question-where-are-rake-files-tasks-scripts-located/144783 "2008-08-01T23:46:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Morgan\_P](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Morgan\_P](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Morgan_P)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2008, 11:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/noob-question-where-are-rake-files-tasks-scripts-located/144783/1 "2008-08-01T23:46:01Z")
Hi there, Just getting my feet wet with rails (and ruby) and want to poke around a little. Could anyone tell me where to find the file executed by rake, for example, with the command rake db:migrate. thanks! -Morgan ---
**Author:** ![Morgan\_P](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Morgan\_P](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Morgan_P)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2008, 12:17am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/noob-question-where-are-rake-files-tasks-scripts-located/144783/2 "2008-08-02T00:17:00Z")
> Just getting my feet wet with rails (and ruby) and want to poke around > a little. Could anyone tell me where to find the file executed by > rake, for example, with the command rake db:migrate. If you’ve vendor’d rails (and you should) you’ll find them here: RAILS\_ROOT/vendor/rails/railties/lib/tasks You’re own custom ones go into: RAILS\_ROOT/lib/tasks -philip ---
**Author:** ![Morgan\_P](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Morgan\_P](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Morgan_P)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2008, 1:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/noob-question-where-are-rake-files-tasks-scripts-located/144783/3 "2008-08-02T01:07:52Z")
thanks Phillip Uh, haven’t vendored rails, don’t know what that means yet. Any idea where rake gets its instructions for db:migrate if I haven’t vendored rails. -Morgan ---
**Author:** ![Morgan\_P](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Morgan\_P](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Morgan_P)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2008, 1:14am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/noob-question-where-are-rake-files-tasks-scripts-located/144783/4 "2008-08-02T01:14:54Z")
> thanks Phillip > > Uh, haven’t vendored rails, don’t know what that means yet. Any idea > where rake gets its instructions for db:migrate if I haven’t vendored > rails. /usr/lib/ruby/gems/…/rails/… Somewhere down there 🙂 “vendoring rails” means that you copy everything you need for rails into vendors/rails so that when you move it to another server you don’t have to deal with installing the rails gem and it’s friends… % rake -T freeze for more info… (and google) -philip ---
**Author:** ![Morgan\_P](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Morgan\_P](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Morgan_P)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2008, 6:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/noob-question-where-are-rake-files-tasks-scripts-located/144783/5 "2008-08-02T06:09:33Z")
thanks Phillip! ---
**Author:** ![Morgan\_P](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Morgan\_P](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Morgan_P)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2008, 1:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/noob-question-where-are-rake-files-tasks-scripts-located/144783/6 "2008-08-02T01:15:29Z")
On Aug 1, 11:26 pm, Morgan P. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > thanks Phillip > > Uh, haven’t vendored rails, don’t know what that means yet. Any idea > where rake gets its instructions for db:migrate if I haven’t vendored > rails. vendoring rails just means that the gems that make up rails are unpacked into your\_app/vendor/rails if you haven’t then the rake files will be inside where ruby keeps its gems. Depending on your setup this will be something like /usr/local/ lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.1.0/lib/tasks Fred