This repository was originally hosted at /jimweirich/rake, however with his passing, has been moved to ruby/rake. Rake was originally created by Jim Weirich, who unfortunately passed away in February 2014. This software is provided “as is” and without any express or implied warranties, including, without limitation, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. See the MIT-LICENSE file included in the distribution. Rake is available under an MIT-style license.Ĭopyright Jim Weirich. Maintainer of Rake 10 and later License ¶ ↑ Tilman Sauerbeck įor aid in maintaining rake. Nobuyoshi Nakada įor the initial patch for rule support. Ryan Dlugoszįor the initial conversation that sparked Rake. search?query=PerlBuildSystem – The Perl Build System Here are links to other projects with similar (and not so similar) goals.ĭ/wiki/Bras – Bras, one of earliest implementations of “make in a scripting language”. Rake is a late entry in the make replacement field. Martin Fowler’s article on Rake: /articles/rake.html Presentations and Articles about Rake ¶ ↑ Type “rake –help” for all available options.

Running the “rake” command without any options will cause it to run the “default” task in the Rakefile: % ls Invoking the “default” task will cause Rake to invoke the “test” task as well. This task does nothing by itself, but it has exactly one dependency, namely the “test” task. Here’s a simple example: task default: %w task :test do ruby 'test/unittest.rb' endĪ task named “test”, which – upon invocation – will run a unit test file in Ruby.Ī task named “default”. gem install rake Usage ¶ ↑ Simple Example ¶ ↑įirst, you must write a “Rakefile” file which contains the build rules. (Formerly tasks for building RDoc, Gems, and publishing to FTP were included in rake but they’re now available in RDoc, RubyGems, and rake-contrib respectively.)ĭownload and install rake with the following. For example, tasks for building tarballs. Rake supports rule patterns to synthesize implicit tasks.įlexible FileLists that act like arrays but know about manipulating file names and paths.Ī library of prepackaged tasks to make building rakefiles easier. Users can specify tasks with prerequisites. No quirky Makefile syntax to worry about (is that a tab or a space?) Rakefiles (rake’s version of Makefiles) are completely defined in standard Ruby syntax. Tasks and dependencies are specified in standard Ruby syntax. Rake is a Make-like program implemented in Ruby.

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