From: Jeremy Hinegardner <jeremy@...>
Date: 2007-08-12T13:17:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Rake and Rant

On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 03:35:05AM +0900, barcaroller wrote:
> I was wondering whether anybody has had any experience with both these Ruby 
> build tools.  If so, which one would be more suitable for large projects 
> that contain both C++ and Java source code?

Yes, Rake is perfectly useful in large non-ruby projects as a build
tool.  According to
(http://railsenvy.com/2007/6/11/ruby-on-rails-rake-tutorial) Jim
actually created Rake to deal with a Java project.  And that link is a
good tutorial too.

Jim has a few tutorials on using Rake with C :

  - http://onestepback.org/index.cgi/Tech/Rake/Tutorial/RakeTutorialIntroduction.rdoc
  - http://onestepback.org/index.cgi/Tech/Rake/Tutorial/RakeTutorialAnotherCExample.red

enjoy,

-jeremy

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 Jeremy Hinegardner                              jeremy@hinegardner.org