Rake or Rant

[Alexandru Popescu]

Hi!

For quite a while i was looking for something to start using Ruby on. I am doing 99% of the my
working time Java, so I was thinking how it will look to manage a Java project through Rake or Rant.

Now my question to you experts and developers of these 2 project is:
1/ which one is more mature?

2/ are there available some examples? (i could find a presentation on Rake but at the first read it
hasn't unfortunately made much sense to me). Some simple example scripts would be highly appreciated.

thanks for your time and help,
:alex |.::the_mindstorm::.|

 

[Alexandru Popescu]

#: by Alexandru Popescu's words the mind was *winged* :#

Hi!

For quite a while i was looking for something to start using Ruby on. I am doing 99% of the my
working time Java, so I was thinking how it will look to manage a Java project through Rake or Rant.

Now my question to you experts and developers of these 2 project is:
1/ which one is more mature?

2/ are there available some examples? (i could find a presentation on Rake but at the first read it
hasn't unfortunately made much sense to me). Some simple example scripts would be highly appreciated.

thanks for your time and help,
:alex |.::the_mindstorm::.|

Oke I think i have found some examples in the doc directory (for both).

:alex |.::the_mindstorm::.|

 

[Stefan Lang]

Hi!

For quite a while i was looking for something to start using Ruby on. I am
doing 99% of the my working time Java, so I was thinking how it will look
to manage a Java project through Rake or Rant.

Now my question to you experts and developers of these 2 project is:
1/ which one is more mature?

2/ are there available some examples? (i could find a presentation on Rake
but at the first read it hasn't unfortunately made much sense to me). Some
simple example scripts would be highly appreciated.

I don't know if you have found it yet, but all Rant features
are more or less thoroughly documented, see http://make.ruby-co.de

 

[Shaun]

I'm a rake guy myself -- but then I was always a makefile guy too. I
never fully took to ant expect when it was provided transparantly a.
la. Netbeans.

As for examples...well, I guess the best known would be Rails.

 

[Alexandru Popescu]

#: by Shaun's words the mind was *winged* :#

I'm a rake guy myself -- but then I was always a makefile guy too. I
never fully took to ant expect when it was provided transparantly a.
la. Netbeans.

As for examples...well, I guess the best known would be Rails.

1/ Do you mean that Rails is using one of these?

2/ Should i take it literally that Rake is make and Rant is Ant? In this new light I guess I know
which one I would consider .

:alex |.::the_mindstorm::.|

 

[Lionel Thiry]

Alexandru Popescu a écrit :

#: by Shaun's words the mind was *winged* :#

1/ Do you mean that Rails is using one of these?

Rails uses Rake.

2/ Should i take it literally that Rake is make and Rant is Ant? In this
new light I guess I know which one I would consider .

Rake is Ruby Make, but Rant is not Ruby Ant. Rant would have been called
Rake if there weren't already an existing Rake project. But it is called
Rant, and named make on rubyforge because there is already another
project called Rant which is truly a Ruby Ant and hasn't released any
files yet. Quite confusing isn't it?

 

[Alexandru Popescu]

#: by Lionel Thiry's words the mind was *winged* :#

Alexandru Popescu a =E9crit :
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Rails uses Rake.
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Rake is Ruby Make, but Rant is not Ruby Ant. Rant would have been calle= d
Rake if there weren't already an existing Rake project. But it is calle= d
Rant, and named make on rubyforge because there is already another
project called Rant which is truly a Ruby Ant and hasn't released any
files yet. Quite confusing isn't it?
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hmmm... started to be :-s. As far as i got it there are 2 make, but no an=
t. oke.

:alex |.::the_mindstorm::.|

 

[Jim Weirich]

Alexandru Popescu said:

Hi!

For quite a while i was looking for something to start using Ruby on. I= am
doing 99% of the my
working time Java, so I was thinking how it will look to manage a Java
project through Rake or Rant.

Now my question to you experts and developers of these 2 project is:
1/ which one is more mature?

2/ are there available some examples? (i could find a presentation on R= ake
but at the first read it
hasn't unfortunately made much sense to me). Some simple example script= s
would be highly appreciated.

* Basic Rake documentation is here: http://rake.rubyforge.org/

* Rakefile format details are here:
http://rake.rubyforge.org/files/doc/rakefile_rdoc.html

* And the some tutorials are here: http://docs.rubyrake.org/

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-- Jim Weirich (e-mail address removed) http://onestepback.org