Hi again,
On Feb 19, 2010, at 2:39 PM, Rhett Sutphin wrote:
Hi,
The JRuby team just announced that JRuby 1.5 is going to have built-
in support for ruby-language access to ant tasks:
http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2010/rake-and-ant-together-a-pick-it-n-stick-it-approach/
I mention this because it will probably affect buildr in some way.
But I also bring it up because the announcement might be a good
place to mention that buildr and antwrap allow you to do some of
this today with either MRI or JRuby. Unfortunately, intensedebate
is blocking me from signing up (it rejects my OpenID as invalid and
I am not receiving an account validation message when I sign up the
traditional way).
I'll try again later, but if someone else wants to beat me to
commenting, feel free.
Okay, so ... it turns out that you can comment without an
intensedebate account. I went ahead and mentioned antwrap and buildr.
It is interesting to see how their (presumably independent) design for
rake/ant integration works. It seems to be pretty similar to antwrap
except that their treatment of nested elements uses an implicit target
rather than an explicit one:
# In JRuby 1.5+
ant.path(:id => "project.class.path") do
pathelement :location => "classes"
end
# In Antwrap
ant.path(:id => "project.class.path") do |a|
a.pathelement :location => "classes"
end
Rhett
