On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Rhett Sutphin <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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. > Thanks for commenting (I don't see your comment but I assume it will get through moderation soon). As someone who has to use Ant more often than not these days, I pretty excited about this. It represents another option to avoid XML programming. Besides, I think any advocacy for Ruby in the Java world is good for Buildr. JRuby + native Ant support could be our gateway drug. alex
