From: Jeremy McAnally <jeremymcanally@...>
Date: 2007-12-30T06:09:05+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Mr Bones - 1.1.0

Or, for that matter, how is this different than newgem, hoe, echoe,
and the others?  Not a critical question (variety isn't bad at all),
but I'm just wondering if there's an advantage over those libraries.

--Jeremy

On Dec 29, 2007 3:22 PM, Tim Pease <tim.pease@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Dec 29, 2007 1:02 PM, Ben Bleything <ben@bleything.net> wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 30, 2007, Tim Pease wrote:
> > > Mr Bones is a handy tool that builds a skeleton for your new Ruby projects.
> > > The skeleton contains some starter code and a collection of rake tasks to
> > > ease the management and deployment of your source code. Mr Bones is not
> > > viral -- all the code your project needs is included in the skeleton (no
> > > gem dependency required).
> >
> > How does Mr. Bones compare with rabal?
> >
> > http://copiousfreetime.rubyforge.org/rabal/
> >
>
> Same idea, but different implementation. Mr Bones is a bit simpler
> than Rabal. The main difference is (1) in how much of a skeleton is
> created (Mr Bones is a smaller skeleton) and (2) how the rake tasks
> are managed. Mr Bones does everything by setting project parameters in
> the top-level Rakefile. Rabal generates tasks specific to a particular
> project.
>
> Blessings,
> TwP
>
>



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