I have a bunch of scientific data pipelines and have found rake to be an excellent tool for these. Same for a bunch of "housekeeping" scripts. Rake is seriousl

I have a bunch of scientific data pipelines and have found rake to be an excellent tool for these. Same for a bunch of "housekeeping" scripts. Rake is seriously underrated I believe. It allows for dependencies and rules, figures out which steps are up-to-date and skips those, allows easy parallelisation etc. Much like make, but with the familiar and sane (ye beautiful) syntax of ruby and its extensive ecosystem.