20 Aug 05
Rake: Not Your Father's Build Language
Martin Fowler has written an excellent article describing the strengths of using Rake as a build language, and how it compares to our old friends make and Ant.Having used Rake extensively in recent months on a Rails project, I can’t underscore enough how handy it is to have a full-blown language at your fingertips when crafting a build system. I got a taste of this power when I experimented with using Groovy to script Ant. I didn’t get a chance to push those boundaries before moving on to Rake, but it’s the same concept: build systems have much to gain from the use of an internal domain-specific language.
A must read!
