From: Caleb Powell <caleb.powell@...>
Date: 2007-03-18T02:50:34+09:00
Subject: Re: JRake

> > I had originally planned to make it use Ant tasks, but perhaps there's
> > more value in reimplementing the tasks from scratch to be more Rubyish?
> > My justification was in reusing all the many, many Ant tasks already
> > implemented within a Rake script, but I can see both sides.
> >
>
> From what you've seen about JRake so far, would it be too
> difficult to generate Rakefiles out of Ant build.xml makefiles ?
>
> best,

I know I'm posting to this forum a little late but....

In my opinion, the best approach is to invoke Ant tasks from within a
rake file. The best part of Ant is the multitude of tasks available. I
wrote awrapper called Antwrap which may be helpful to you:

http://rubyforge.org/projects/antwrap/
http://antwrap.rubyforge.org/

There is a convert.rb script available which will convert an Ant
build.xml file to a Rake file. Antwrap is a gem that allows you to
invoke Ant tasks from within a Ruby/JRuby script.

Cheers,

Caleb