# Rake? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [July 10, 2007, 10:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake/108985 "2007-07-10T10:13:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ujjwal\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/57b2e6/32.png) [@Ujjwal\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ujjwal_T)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 10:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake/108985/1 "2007-07-10T10:13:54Z")
Can a rake command create a Database (MySQL) from specifications in a .yml file??? I am newbie and I don’t understand how rake works ?? I am using windows… Plz Help!!! Regards, Ujjwal * * * This e-mail communication and any attachments may be privileged and confidential to Hexaware and are intended only for the use of the recipients named above. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not review, disclose, disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail and attachments. If you have received this email in error, please delete the same alongwith all attachments thereto and notify us immediately at removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid . * * * ---
**Author:** ![Ujjwal\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/57b2e6/32.png) [@Ujjwal\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ujjwal_T)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 3:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake/108985/2 "2007-07-10T15:28:43Z")
On Jul 10, 2007, at 3:12 AM, Ujjwal T. wrote: > Plz Help!!! > > Regards, > > Ujjwal In short: Yes. ActiveRecord, the gem which is also a component of Ruby on Rails does this with it’s migrations feature. It could be a lot to learn to use it separately from Rails, but it is certainly possible and people do it. It is also fairly database agnostic, but use with MySQL is pretty well google-able… ---
**Author:** ![Ujjwal\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/57b2e6/32.png) [@Ujjwal\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ujjwal_T)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2007, 8:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake/108985/3 "2007-07-15T08:36:07Z")
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 10:26:55PM +0900, John J. wrote: > ActiveRecord, the gem which is also a component of Ruby on Rails does > this with it’s migrations feature. > It could be a lot to learn to use it separately from Rails, but it is > certainly possible and people do it. Hi, perhaps [O'Reilly Media - Technology and Business Training](http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/7051) helps… Cheers Bas – Bas van Gils [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid), [http://www.van-gils.org](http://www.van-gils.org) [[[Thank you for not distributing my E-mail address]]] Quod est inferius est sicut quod est superius, et quod est superius est sicut quod est inferius, ad perpetranda miracula rei unius. ---
**Author:** ![Ujjwal\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/57b2e6/32.png) [@Ujjwal\_T](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Ujjwal_T)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2007, 1:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake/108985/4 "2007-07-16T01:15:32Z")
On 7/15/07, Bas van Gils [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > [O'Reilly Media - Technology and Business Training](http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/7051) > > helps… I hope you might have heard about ‘make’, which is a unix utility for running tasks. Rake is its hip cousin in the sense, it can do practically anything that “make” can do(and hence yes you can create databases and what not) and much more. There are couple of excellent docs available about rake: [http://docs.rubyrake.org/read/chapter/1](http://docs.rubyrake.org/read/chapter/1) [http://www.railsenvy.com/2007/6/11/ruby-on-rails-rake-tutorial](http://www.railsenvy.com/2007/6/11/ruby-on-rails-rake-tutorial) And if you feel fine then: > **[Using the Rake Build Language](https://www.martinfowler.com/articles/rake.html)** > > A long-form article entitled: "Using the Rake Build Language"