From: Marc Weber <marco-oweber@...>
Date: 2013-07-10T10:04:36+09:00
Subject: announce: rumake - make for ruby

Excerpts from sto.mar's message of Sun Jul 07 15:23:49 +0200 2013:
> I just wanted to mention that there also is 'thor'.
Looks like a library which supports tasks, and is written to simplify
wirting command line applications. I needed much more, I ended up
writing 

  http://github.com/MarcWeber/rumake

rather than adjustintg an existing tool to my needs.

Evereybody is welcome to join.

quoting its Readme:

  features:
  * fast / lightweight
  * abort early
  * keep going (optional)
  * tries to build the dependency path which is supposed to take longest first
  * multiple threads possible to run multiple compilations at the same time
    (no processes, thus if you have long running ruby calculations we have to
    think about a solution)
  * estimated time of arrival support by simulating the build based on previous runs
  * tasks.respond_to? :shell_commands => export to makefile
  * force rebuild when the command line changes (see @actionChanged)

  TODO:
  - improve rake/drake like DSL
  - is it needed to have tasks run in order? rake's non multitask?

  goals:
  - write the code in a way so that it can eventually be used by guard one day

Give it a try, it might make a difference to you, too.
Of course its "work in progress", but gets my job done nicely

Happy coding

Marc Weber