You can perform various maintenance tasks with the help of the **rake** utility (find more information at http://docs.seattlerb.org/rake/). Examples of Rake tasks may be creation of a database structure or population of a database with test data.
This functionality is available if the application contains a **Rakefile** that describes available Rake tasks (for details, refer to the Rakefile format documentation). It is a good practice to have the ‘rake’ gem listed in a Gemfile.
Go to **Websites & Domains** and click **Ruby**. After gems installation you can try to run a Rake task by clicking **Run rake task**. In the opened dialog, you can provide some parameters and click **OK** - this will be equivalent to running the `rake` utility with the specified parameters in the command line.
For example, to view the list of available tasks, enter `-T` and click **OK** (this is equivalent to running the command `rake`` ``-T`).
To run a specific task (for example, `about`), use the the task name as a parameter (this is equivalent to running the command `rake`` ``about`).
More examples of Rake commands:
- To run a default task, run the rake utility without any parameters: `rake`.
- To run a task with environment variables, specify the values of the variables in the form `[variable=value]` before the task name: `rake`` ``RAILS_ENV=production`` ``SECRET_KEY_BASE=my-secret-key`` ``about`.
- To run a task with parameters, specify the value of parameters in brackets: `rake`` ``assets:clean[1].`
- To view the list of all available `rake` options, use the `-h` option: `rake`` ``-h`.
