i 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 thi

i 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.