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That's one huge advantage with Rake, just add `p VARIABLE_NAME` anywhere in your Rakefile, and you'll see the textual value of it at that point.

• davexunit 12y ago
  You can add echo commands to Makefiles just as easily. Rake is cool for Ruby programs, but that's about it.
  • vidarh 12y ago
    Personally I find Rake awful for Ruby work too because you often need to read through a Ruby program to figure out what they do, and so many tools include custom Rake integration that makes you hunt down documentation elsewhere. I usually use Makefiles for my Ruby projects.
• ska 12y ago
  That misses the point; you can already echo a variable wherever you want in a makefile similarly. This gives you a way to do it without editing the makefile, without knowing before hand you want to see that variable.
  • herge 12y ago
    Echo and p aren't exactly the same, there's a difference during debugging between: 1 2 3 4 (echo) and ["1", "2 3", "4"] (p)
    • ta0967 12y ago
      that's a strawman though. what about printf ' "%s"' $(numbers) to output "1" "2 3" "4"