Rake means 'Ruby make', generally it is used to run the database migration. It is used for the same kind of tasks that 'make' and 'ant' are used for in other languages like C and Java respectively. When Rake is given a task to do, like running migrations, it analyzes the application and decides which script to run. In ruby its used for more complicated tasks like modifying the database structure and running tests.
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