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Rake 0.5.0 Released

It has been a long time in coming, but we finally have a new version of Rake available.

Changes

What is Rake

Rake is a build tool similar to the make program in many ways. But instead of cryptic make recipes, Rake uses standard Ruby code to declare tasks and dependencies. You have the full power of a modern scripting language built right into your build tool.

Availability

The easiest way to get and install rake is via RubyGems …

gem install rake    (you may need root/admin privileges)

Otherwise, you can get it from the more traditional places:

Home Page

rake.rubyforge.org/

Download

rubyforge.org/project/showfiles.php?group_id=50

Thanks

Lots of people provided input to this release. Thanks to Tilman Sauerbeck for numerous patches, documentation fixes and suggestions. And for also pushing me to get this release out. Also, thanks to Brian Candler for the finding and fixing –trace/dry-run fix. That was an obscure bug. Also to Eric Hodel for some good suggestions.

– Jim Weirich