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This version has some minor changes and bug fixes. Fixes include a better
way of determining file time stamps that doesn’t give problems on
Windows machines.
The biggest change is that FileList are now "load on demand".
When you define a file list, e.g.
The file list just records the include and exclude patterns. Later, when
you do …
PKGFILES.each { |filename| ... }
the file list will actually go out and read the file system to find the
matching files. The thought is that searching the file system is a rather
expensive operation and if you never actually use the file list,
then it is wasted time. By building the file list only when it is needed
will make rake startup time a bit faster.
If you are having trouble starting with rake, I wrote up a QuickStartExample
showing off some of the features of rake.
What is Rake?
Rake is a make-like utility written entirely in Ruby. It allows to you
specify build target and actions, with the action being standard Ruby code.
Download
You can get Rake from rubyforge. If you have
rubygems installed, then all you need to do is …
gem -i rake
If you have a very recent version of rubygems (i.e. from CVS),
then the —gen-rdoc option finally produces a decent rendition of the
Rake documentation locally.
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