After an introduction to bake, and what this shell means within CakePHP, Neil went on to explain and show examples of the code generation templates and capabilities provided by default.
The bake shell is broken down into tasks and a main shell. These tasks separate out the logic required for various main task subsets including controller, model and view baking, amongst others. The main bake shell is found in the CakePHP directory cake/console/libs/bake.php. Tasks used by this shell are defined in the $tasks variable. Bake extends the CakeShell class and executes calls based on whether the users want interactive or non-interactive tasks through the __interactive() and bake() methods respectively.
Neil made the suggestion that a persistent MySQL connection might be a good idea to stop database connection timeouts.
Following this introduction, a great walkthrough of customisation of the bake process and templates was demonstrated. This included the addition of a new Shell that allows for multiple bakes to be done automatically of the same type. Neil has been kind enough to host the code, and you can find this over at the CakeFest downloads page.
Once the database has been created, bake models and controllers as normal using:
