# Deprecating the rake tasks

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/deprecating-the-rake-tasks/1841>\
**Category:** Chef Infra (archive)\
**Created:** [May 17, 2011, 7:39pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/deprecating-the-rake-tasks/1841 "2011-05-17T19:39:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bryan\_McLellan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.chef.io/bryan_mclellan/32/81_2.png) [@Bryan\_McLellan](https://discourse.chef.io/u/Bryan_McLellan)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2011, 7:39pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/deprecating-the-rake-tasks/1841/1 "2011-05-17T19:39:27Z")

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The rake tasks such as ‘rake new\_cookbook’ are from the time that we  
used rake to manage the cookbook hierarchy on the Chef server because  
we did not yet have an API for uploading cookbooks to the server.  
Knife has now replaced the chef-repo rake tasks and we’re deprecating  
them. [1]

If there are any rake tasks that don’t have equivalents in knife,  
please check to see if there is a ticket for adding this feature, and  
if not, create one.

Thanks!

Bryan

[1] [http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-2353](http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-2353)