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Rake

Rake is a task automation tool written in Ruby. It is a standard part of all Ruby installs, so if you are using Jekyll, you have it. Adding a "Rakefile" allows you to add commands to automate repetitive tasks.

CollectionBuilder-CSV provides a "Rakefile" with tasks to help set up and deploy your digital collection. This allows you to run rake commands inside this repository. the use of each task is documented in "docs/rake_tasks/" folder. The code for the individual rake tasks is contained in the folder "rakelib".

The two most commonly used task are:

deploy

rake deploy, is a short cut to run the full Jekyll command JEKYLL_ENV=production bundle exec jekyll build. Using the production environment causes template to include analytics and additional machine markup in build, which can take considerably longer than jekyll s.

generate_derivatives

rake generate_derivatives, automates the creation of optimized, small and thumbnail images from all images and PDFs contained in the "objects/" directory in this repository. (Note: Optimization is not supported for Windows users.) It outputs the derivatives to "objects/small" and "objects/thumbs". Please ensure you have the requirements installed and available on the commandline before running!

Requirements:

Check the doc file for full configuration options.

Note: the image_optim Gem is used to optimize images using the optimization libraries provided by the image_optim_pack Gem. However, image_optim_pack does not provide binaries for Windows, so optimization is skipped when using the rake task on Windows.