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True, Rake also has file tasks. There still are tasks and not much like file targets in Make.
by bjpbakker 9y ago
True, Rake also has file tasks. There still are tasks and not much like file targets in Make.
- shoo 9y agoi think Rake is one of the various newer re-implementations of make that more or less miss the point of what is good about make. make is pretty neat if you think about it as a framework to help you compute/derive values from other values. each value happens to be stored in the filesystem as a file. in contrast, many of the newer build-tool make replacements seem to miss the whole value of values and either push or force you in a direction of doing actions with side effects.
- matt4077 9y agoThey are pretty much the same: file 'blogpost.html' # we want to produce blogpost.html # this rule specifies how to build # any .html from the source rule ".html" => ".md" do |t| sh "pandoc -o #{t.name} #{t.source}" end