Rake 0.9.0 Released
Rake version 0.9.0 has a number of bug fixes and enhancments (see below for
more details). Additionally, the internals have be slightly restructured
and improved.
Changes
New Features / Enhancements / Bug Fixes in Version 0.9.0
- Rake now warns when the deprecated :needs syntax used (and suggests the
proper syntax in the warning).
- Moved Rake DSL commands to top level ruby object ‘main’. Rake
DSL commands are no longer private methods in Object. (Suggested by James
M. Lawrence/quix)
- Rake now uses case-insensitive comparisons to find the Rakefile on Windows.
Based on patch by Roger Pack.
- Rake now requires (instead of loads) files in the test task. Patch by
Cezary Baginski.
- Fixed typos. Patches by Sean Scot August Moon and R.T. Lechow.
- Rake now prints the Rakefile directory only when it‘s different from
the current directory. Patch by Alex Chaffee.
- Improved rakefile_location discovery on Windows. Patch by James Tucker.
- Rake now recognizes "Windows Server" as a windows system. Patch
by Matthias Lüdtke
- Rake::RDocTask is deprecated. Use RDoc::Task from RDoc 2.4.2+ (require
‘rdoc/task’)
- Rake::GemPackageTask is deprecated. Use Gem::PackageTask (require
‘rubygems/package_task’)
- Rake now outputs various messages to $stderr instead of $stdout.
- Rake no longer emits warnings for Config. Patch by Santiago Pastorino.
- Removed Rake‘s DSL methods from the top level scope. If you need to
call ‘task :xzy’ in your code, include Rake::DSL into your class, or put
the code in a Rake::DSL.environment do … end block.
- Split rake.rb into individual files.
- Support for the —where (-W) flag for showing where a task is defined.
- Fixed quoting in test task. (onestepback.org/redmine/issues/show/44,
www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/1223138)
- Fixed the silent option parsing problem. (onestepback.org/redmine/issues/show/47)
- Fixed :verbose=>false flag on sh and ruby commands.
- Rake command line options may be given by default in a RAKEOPT environment
variable.
- Errors in Rake will now display the task invocation chain in effect at the
time of the error.
- Accepted change by warnickr to not expand test patterns in shell (allowing
more files in the test suite).
- Fixed that file tasks did not perform prereq lookups in scope (Redmine
#57).
What is Rake
Rake is a build tool similar to the make program in many ways. But instead
of cryptic make recipes, Rake uses standard Ruby code to declare tasks and
dependencies. You have the full power of a modern scripting language built
right into your build tool.
Availability
The easiest way to get and install rake is via RubyGems …
gem install rake (you may need root/admin privileges)
Otherwise, you can get it from the more traditional places:
Thanks
As usual, it was input from users that drove a alot of these changes. The
following people either contributed patches, made suggestions or made
otherwise helpful comments. Thanks to …
- James M. Lawrence (quix)
- Roger Pack
- Cezary Baginski
- Sean Scot August Moon
- R.T. Lechow
- Alex Chaffee
- James Tucker
- Matthias Lüdtke
- Santiago Pastorino
Also, bit thanks to Eric Hodel for assisting with getting this release out
the door (where "assisting" includes, but is not by any means
limited to, "pushing" me to get it done).