Ruby Forum Ruby > Ruby-based equivalent to SCons?

First of all, I'd like to point out that while the "What does this Ruby
code do?" CAPTCHA when signing up at ruby-forum.com is admittedly a very
clever idea, it's a bit of a pain for Ruby novices like me. You have to
know Ruby in order to get help on Ruby? Anyway, I don't mean to say that
just to complain, I just felt it worth pointing out.

My main question is actually pretty simple: Does anyone know if there is
a Ruby-based tool/library that's comparable to SCons?

(For those who don't know, SCons is a Python library (plus a helper
tool) that serves as a much cleaner/saner (at least IMO) alternative to
makefiles. But, although I've never actually written any Ruby code
before (yet), I've looked into the syntax and from what I've seen I like
it *much* better than Python.)

The standard is Rake.

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 9:12 PM, Nick Sabalausky <

Rake and SCons aren't exactly comparible. Rake is a tool for writing 
common
tasks while SCons is better to be compared with autotools or cmake, a 
C/C++
build tool.

For C extensions, there is rake-compiler that automates a bunch of stuff 
for
you and works on all platforms. Other than that it's either been 
setup.rb or
doing it yourself.

Jason

Jason Roelofs wrote:
> Rake and SCons aren't exactly comparible. Rake is a tool for writing 
> common
> tasks while SCons is better to be compared with autotools or cmake, a 
> C/C++
> build tool.

Rake can be a build tool too.  Some Java developers are using it instead 
of Ant.

> 
> For C extensions, there is rake-compiler that automates a bunch of stuff 
> for
> you and works on all platforms. Other than that it's either been 
> setup.rb or
> doing it yourself.
> 
> Jason

Best,
-- 
Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
marnen@marnen.org

Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote:
> Jason Roelofs wrote:
>> Rake and SCons aren't exactly comparible. Rake is a tool for writing 
>> common
>> tasks while SCons is better to be compared with autotools or cmake, a 
>> C/C++
>> build tool.
> 
> Rake can be a build tool too.  Some Java developers are using it instead 
> of Ant.
> 
>> 
>> For C extensions, there is rake-compiler that automates a bunch of stuff 
>> for
>> you and works on all platforms. Other than that it's either been 
>> setup.rb or
>> doing it yourself.
>> 

Thanks, all. Rake seems to be working fine for my current purpose 
(automating the build process for a somewhat complex 
HaxePHP/HaxeFlash/swfmill/misc-custom-tools project). As a bonus it's 
also giving me a good feel for Ruby.