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Rake Support

This feature is only supported in the Ultimate edition.

The following is only valid when Ruby Plugin is installed and enabled!

Prerequisites

  • In Rails applications, Rake tasks are recognized when placed in .rake files under lib/tasks directory, or in Rakefile.
  • In plain Ruby applications, Rake tasks are recognized when placed in Rakefile.

Rake support

Rake support in IntelliJ IDEA includes:

  • Syntax and error highlighting.
  • Structure view that shows the structure of a Rake task opened in the editor.
    ruby RakeStructureView
  • Possibility to create and run Rake tasks.
  • Available Rake tasks appear in the Go to Symbol suggestion list.
Last modified: 6 March 2018

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