Sites repository

The Subversion repository in which all your Blueprint sites are stored.

Akismet

Akismet is a robust spam-filtering and reporting service used on blogs and websites the internet over (all Wordpress blogs, for example, have Akismet integration). Akismet is free for personal use; commercial licenses are also available. Some blueprints - Blog and Page-with-comments - use Akismet for filtering comment spam. Comment information is reported to Akismet, which returns a "spam" or "not spam" response to Blueprint. You can help Akismet by reporting as spam anything it hasn't picked up.

Rake Tasks

A rake task is, generically, a Ruby on Rails automation. Typically, a rake task does something in a single line of code that would otherwise be time-consuming or repetitive. In Blueprint, we use rake tasks to back up site content, retrieve sites from your sites repository, install and upgrade blueprints and synchronise site templates, among other things.

A rake task will look something like this: rake:site:retrieve domain=yourwebsite.com. The second part - the domain, in this case - constitutes an argument to the task. Some rake tasks don't require an argument, like rake:blueprint:upgrade:all, but most do.

You can see a full list of rake tasks and their arguments by going to the Blueprint directory in your console and typing 'rake --tasks'.