Understanding Rake helps you 1) write your own tasks and extend buildr and 2) be more effective when developing/debugging your build.
I think the important concepts about Rake are summarized here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/BUILDR/12+Things+to+Know+About+Buildr This being said, I have to agree the Rake documentation isn't great. There was some recent discussion on the Rake mailing list about this -- but I have not seen any actual progress yet. We've also had discussion on the buildr mailing list about providing a more basic tutorial that covers some of the rake basics. I actually have some scraps/draft documentation on my system about that but it's not ready to be published. I recommend you try out things and ask questions -- a good way to learn (IMO) though not necessarily the easiest. alex On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Olivier Lefevre <[email protected]> wrote: > While we are talking I have one more question: how much rake > do you need to know in order to make good use of buildr? I have > to ask because the rake docs: http://docs.rubyrake.org/ are just > the kind of stuff that would make anyone with common sense > run for the hills. To call them minimal is kind; they are probably > out of date, too. > > Thanks, > > -- O.L. > >
