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Run Rake tasks

Last modified: 17 February 2025

Run a task: Tools | Run Rake Task CtrlAlt0R

Rake is a popular task runner for Ruby and Rails applications. For example, Rails provides the predefined Rake tasks for creating databases, running migrations, and performing tests. You can also create custom tasks to automate specific actions - run code analysis tools, backup databases, and so on.

RubyMine provides a convenient way to run, debug, and reload Rake tasks. Moreover, you can use run/debug configurations to run tasks with specific parameters: you can pass task arguments, specify environment variables, and so on.

Before running a Rake task

  1. Make sure the 'rake' gem is installed to the project interpreter.

  2. Check that the Rakefile is located in the project's root.

Run a task

RubyMine allows you to run an arbitrary Rake task. For example, let’s see how to run the db:migrate task required for migrating a database in the Rails application:

Run a task using Run Anything

  1. Do one of the following:

    • Press Ctrl twice and start typing db:migrate in the invoked popup. Select rake db:migrate from the list and press Enter.

      Run Anything / rake db:migrate

    • Go to Tools | Run Rake Task CtrlAlt0R. In the invoked popup, start typing db:migrate, select db:migrate and press Enter.

    note

    If you don't see the desired Rake task in the dropdown, try reloading tasks.

  2. In the invoked Execute 'db:migrate' dialog, select the required migration version and environment. Click OK.

    Execute db:migrate

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    Note that for other types of Rake tasks RubyMine provides the Arguments option for specifying the arguments to be passed to the task.

Run a task from the editor

  1. In the *.rake file, do one of the following:

    • Click the Run Rake Task button on the gutter next to the required task.

    • Place the caret at the required task name and press AltEnter.

  2. Depending on whether you want to run or debug a task, select Run '<task name>' or Debug '<task name>'. Press Enter.

After you've run a Rake task, RubyMine automatically creates a special profile - a temporary run/debug configuration. You can customize settings of this configuration, for example, you can pass task arguments, specify environment variables, and so on. Then, you can save the customized configuration to quickly run this configuration in the future.

Run a task using a run/debug configuration

RubyMine automatically creates the Rake run configurations for running the Minitest and RSpec tests in Rails applications - test and spec. You can run these tasks or any other task with the existing run/debug configurations in one of the following ways:

Reload Rake tasks

Sometimes it is necessary to reload Rake tasks. For example, this can be useful if you created a custom task and need to run it. To reload Rake tasks, do one of the following:

Configure parameters for running a task

When you run a Rake task for the first time, RubyMine automatically creates a corresponding Rake temporary configuration, which can be saved. If necessary, you can create the Rake run/debug configuration manually from the predefined template.

To customize the run/debug configuration, do the following: