Ruby on Rails/Built-In Rails Tools/Command-Line Reference

Rake can be executed with the following command-line options:

• --dry-run or -n: Do a dry run without executing actions
• --help or -H: Display a help message
• --libdir=LIBDIR or -I LIBDIR: Include LIBDIR in the search path for required modules
• --rakelibdir=RAKELIBDIR or -R RAKELIBDIR: Auto-import any .rake files in RAKELIBDIR. (default is 'rakelib')
• --nosearch or -N: Do not search parent directories for the Rakefile
• --prereqs or -P: Display the tasks and dependencies, then exit
• --quiet or -q: Do not log messages to standard output
• --rakefile=FILE or -f FILE: Use FILE as the rakefile
• --require=MODULE or -r MODULE: Require MODULE before executing rakefile
• --silent or -s: Like --quiet, but also suppresses the 'in directory' announcement
• --tasks[=PATTERN] or -T [PATTERN]: Display the tasks (matching optional PATTERN) with descriptions, then exit
• --trace or -t: Turn on invoke/execute tracing, enable full backtrace
• --usage or -h: Display usage
• --verbose or -v: Log message to standard output (default)
• --version or -V: Display the program version
• --classic-namespace or -C: Put Task and FileTask in the top level namespace