Month: May 2017

Posted on

Welcome to my blog

A few days ago I added a new entry to the history of this blog.

  • 23 April 2005 — I bought my noteslog.com domain name.
  • 4 December 2005 — I started this blog at he.net.
  • 6 April 2007 — I changed this blog to anhosting.com.
  • 11 April 2013 — I changed this blog to digitalocean.com, Ubuntu 12.04
  • 23 April 2014 — I was forced to let expire my noteslog.com domain name.
  • 24 May 2017 — I changed this blog to digitalocean.com, Ubuntu 16.04

In the meantime, it’s URL went through

  • https://mondotondo.com/aercolino/noteslog
  • http://noteslog.com
  • http://andowebsit.es/blog/noteslog.com
  • https://mondotondo.com
Posted on

How to use Rake::PackageTask to create a zip file

I found out that the easiest way to build a WordPress plugin is using a rake task. In fact, you can use Rake::PackageTask to create a zip file. However, there is very little documentation about how to do it in practice. Here is my solution.

  1. (destroy and) create a folder to hold just the needed files
  2. copy the (possibly transformed) needed files to that folder
  3. compress the folder

Here is my Rakefile:

Here are the tasks it creates:

Here is how you can use it:

Here is what you get: