diff --git a/plugins/rake-fast/README.md b/plugins/rake-fast/README.md index f56142f69..1417befa1 100644 --- a/plugins/rake-fast/README.md +++ b/plugins/rake-fast/README.md @@ -2,22 +2,34 @@ Fast rake autocompletion plugin. -This script caches the output for later usage and significantly speeds it up. It generates a .rake_tasks cache file in parallel to the Rakefile. It also checks the file modification dates to see if it needs to regenerate the cache file. +This plugin caches the output for later usage and significantly speeds it up. +It generates a `.rake_tasks` cache file in parallel to the Rakefile. It also +checks the file modification time to see if it needs to regenerate the cache +file. -This is entirely based on [this pull request by Ullrich Schäfer](https://github.com/robb/.dotfiles/pull/10/), which is inspired by [this Ruby on Rails trick from 2006](http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2006/3/9/fast-rake-task-completion-for-zsh/). +This is entirely based on [this pull request by Ullrich Schäfer](https://github.com/robb/.dotfiles/pull/10/), +which is inspired by [this Ruby on Rails trick from 2006](http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2006/3/9/fast-rake-task-completion-for-zsh/). Think about that. 2006. +---------- + +Since August of 2016, it also checks if it's in a Rails project and looks at +rake files inside `lib/tasks` and their modification time to know if the +cache file needs to be regenerated. + ## Installation Just add the plugin to your `.zshrc`: -```bash -plugins=(foo bar rake-fast) +```zsh +plugins=(... rake-fast) ``` You might consider adding `.rake_tasks` to your [global .gitignore](https://help.github.com/articles/ignoring-files#global-gitignore) ## Usage -`rake`, then press tab +Type `rake`, then press tab. + +If you want to force the regeneration of the `.rake_tasks` file, run `rake_refresh`.