What is Rake and Gem is actually in RubyonRails.???

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I am new to Ruby on Rails and number of times interacted with rake and gem. Can anyone explain what is Rake and Gem in RoR?

Thanks

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The docs describe rake as 'a simple ruby build program with capabilities similar to make', although it's used for more than that - it's a fairly general purpose framework for writing tasks that depend on other tasks. Rails provides a number of rake tasks to do things like running migrations, running tests etc.

Rubygems is a package management / library distribution tool for ruby, gem is the executable which provides access to it from the command line.

Fred

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Rake is a build system. Gems are packages of reusable ruby functionality so Gem is a package manager for providing easy access to the gems.

Best Wishes, Peter