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Last Update: | Thu Mar 12 18:40:43 -0700 2009 |
Supporting Rake version: 0.8.4
This package contains Rake, a simple ruby build program with capabilities similar to make.
Rake has the following features:
Download and install rake with the following.
gem install rake
You can download the source tarball of the latest version of Rake from
Extract the tarball and run
% ruby install.rb
from its distribution directory.
First, you must write a "Rakefile" file which contains the build rules. Here‘s a simple example:
task :default => [:test] task :test do ruby "test/unittest.rb" end
This Rakefile has two tasks:
Running the "rake" command without any options will cause it to run the "default" task in the Rakefile:
% ls Rakefile test/ % rake (in /home/some_user/Projects/rake) ruby test/unittest.rb ....unit test output here...
Type "rake —help" for all available options.
Rake is currently hosted at github. The github web page is github.com/jimweirich/rake. The public git clone URL is
If you wish to run the unit and functional tests that come with Rake:
rake # If you have a version of rake installed ruby -Ilib bin/rake # If you do not have a version of rake installed.
Bugs, features requests and other issues can be logged at
You will need an account to before you can post issues. Register at onestepback.org/redmine/account/register. Or you can send me an email (at jim dot weirich at gmail dot com)
Rake is a late entry in the make replacement field. Here are links to other projects with similar (and not so similar) goals.
Rake is available under an MIT-style license.
Copyright (c) 2003, 2004 Jim Weirich
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
The Rake homepage is rake.rubyforge.org. You can find the Rake RubyForge page at rubyforge.org/projects/rake.
Feel free to submit commits or feature requests. If you send a patch, remember to update the corresponding unit tests. If fact, I prefer new feature to be submitted in the form of new unit tests.
For other information, feel free to ask on the ruby-talk mailing list (which is mirrored to comp.lang.ruby) or contact jim dot weirich at gmail.com.