Path: | README |
Last Update: | Wed Oct 12 10:22:51 UTC 2005 |
This package contains Rake, a simple ruby build program with capabilities similar to make.
Rake has the following features:
The latest version of rake can be found at
Online Resources can be found at …
You can install rake with the following command.
% ruby install.rb
from its distribution directory.
Download and install rake with the following.
gem install --remote rake
Once installed, you can run rake as follows …
% rake [options ...] [VAR=VALUE ...] [tasks...]
Type "rake —help" for an up-to-date option summary.
Invoking rake without any options or targets causes rake to look for a rakefile and invoke the default task in that rakefile.
For example, given a simple rakefile like this …
task :default => [:test] task :test do ruby "test/unittest.rb" end
The command
$ rake
will invoke the default task. As default satisfies its prerequisites, the test task will run the unit tests for the package.
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 © 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@weirichhouse.org.
Rake is invoked from the command line using:
% rake [<em>options</em> ...] [<em>VAR</em>=<em>VALUE</em>] [<em>targets</em> ...]
Options are:
In addition, any command line option of the form VAR=VALUE will be added to the environment hash ENV and may be tested in the Rakefile.
See doc/rakefile.rdoc for details on the Rakefile format.
Author: | Jim Weirich <jim@weirichhouse.org> |
Requires: | Ruby 1.8.0 or later |
License: | Copyright 2003, 2004 by Jim Weirich. Released under an MIT-style license. See the LICENSE file included in the distribution. |
This software is provided "as is" and without any express or implied warranties, including, without limitation, the implied warranties of merchantibility and fitness for a particular purpose.