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A make-like build utility for Ruby.

12 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 1 story, 11 comments · first 2014-11-04 · latest 2025-06-20

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  1. …https://github.com/go-task/task - Cake (C#): https://github.com/cake-build/cake - Rake (Ruby): https://github.com/ruby/rake Or an entirely different concept: Makedown, as discussed on HN 8 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41…
    comment by PhilippGille · 2025-06-20 · in Learn Makefiles
  2. …to make that supports 1+2+3+4 but de-emphasizes 3, "targets are files", from the ruby community, is https://github.com/ruby/rake these days in projects it is quite common to see make used to do 1 but not 2, 3 nor 4. i.e. a makefile as a…
    comment by shoo · 2023-11-06 · in Show HN: Jeeves – A Pythonic Alternative to GNU Make
  3. …it then requires some 70 lines of awful code to actually parse that data into a usable construct: https://github.com/ruby/rake/blob/7b50e9dc37abc57fd365c16cb1...
    comment by tremon · 2023-07-27 · in An introduction to metaprogramming in Ruby
  4. …it’s just Ruby which is a delight. I briefly used Mage (similar, but Go) and it was fine too. [0]: https://github.com/ruby/rake
    comment by rgrmrts · 2023-07-16 · in Taskfile: A Modern Alternative to Makefile
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    Ruby/rake: A make-like build utility for Ruby
    story by Tomte · 2021-08-17 · 0 comments
  6. Not sure you can request already publicly available information ( https://github.com/ruby/rake/blob/master/rake.gemspec + everywhere where rubygems are replicated) to be deleted. Even less so when you as the author made it public…
    comment by capableweb · 2020-11-23 · in The Nintendo Switch uses my open source code
  7. Have you ever considered using Rakefiles instead? https://github.com/ruby/rake
    comment by ddebernardy · 2019-05-14 · in Ask HN: What overlooked class of tools should a self-taught programmer look into
  8. …a polyglot these days, I still often use rake, even tho it does make some golang people vomit :-) https://github.com/ruby/rake
    comment by freedomben · 2019-01-20 · in Show HN: Task – A simple build tool written in Go
  9. …There are a few notable exceptions/edge cases. For example, Ruby's rake has just ~1,300 stars: https://github.com/ruby/rake It'd be an interesting project to compare frameworks/tools by aggregating the stars (or whatever metric) of its…
    comment by danso · 2018-06-15 · in Has Vue passed React yet?
  10. …use rake [0] to create build and deploy tasks so I can do `rake build` and `rake deploy:prod`. [0] https://github.com/ruby/rake
    comment by ajanuary · 2017-09-12 · in Building a fast, secured and free static site in less than three hours
  11. …relatively few stars. The most prominent example in my mind is ruby/rake, which has just 627 stars: https://github.com/ruby/rake
    comment by danso · 2016-06-19 · in Understanding the Factors That Impact the Popularity of GitHub Repositories
  12. …It's very make-like and simple, but with the advantage of a fully-featured scripting language. https://github.com/ruby/rake
    comment by RVuRnvbM2e · 2014-11-04 · in Qake: GNU Make-based build system with a different approach