== Rake tasks ==

When you created the plugin with the built-in rails generator, it generated a rake file for you in 'vendor/plugins/yaffle/tasks/yaffle.rake'.  Any rake task you add here will be available to the app.

Many plugin authors put all of their rake tasks into a common namespace that is the same as the plugin, like so:

*vendor/plugins/yaffle/tasks/yaffle.rake*

[source, ruby]
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namespace :yaffle do
  desc "Prints out the word 'Yaffle'"
  task :squawk => :environment do
    puts "squawk!"
  end
end
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When you run `rake -T` from your plugin you will see:

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yaffle:squawk             # Prints out the word 'Yaffle'
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You can add as many files as you want in the tasks directory, and if they end in .rake Rails will pick them up.

Note that tasks from 'vendor/plugins/yaffle/Rakefile' are not available to the main app.