Add rake task to generate guides inside a rails app

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/railties/lib/tasks/documentation.rake b/railties/lib/tasks/documentation.rake
index b20b58ba24..77b6532fbf 100644
--- a/railties/lib/tasks/documentation.rake
+++ b/railties/lib/tasks/documentation.rake
@@ -52,6 +52,19 @@ namespace :doc do
     rm_rf 'doc/plugins' rescue nil
   end
 
+  desc "Generate Rails guides"
+  task :guides do
+    source = File.join(RAILTIES_PATH, "doc/guides")
+    destination = File.join(RAILS_ROOT, "doc/guides")
+    FileUtils.rm_r(destination) if File.directory?(destination)
+    FileUtils.mkdir(destination)
+
+    FileUtils.cp_r File.join(source, 'html/.'), File.join(destination)
+    # Copy images and css files to html directory. These dirs are in .gitigore and shouldn't be source controlled.
+    FileUtils.cp_r File.join(source, 'source/images'), File.join(destination, 'images')
+    FileUtils.cp_r File.join(source, 'source/stylesheets'), File.join(destination, 'stylesheets')
+  end
+
   namespace :plugins do
     # Define doc tasks for each plugin
     plugins.each do |plugin|