OK, I'll give buildr a try after I'm finished converting my homegrown bash scripts to Gradle (portability issues between unices). buildr does seem to have good docs; it's the state of rake docs (basically just API docs) that worried me.
Incidentally the most recent review of Gradle vs. buildr I could find is from 2009; I suppose much has changed since. Too much energy seems spent on arguing against XML tools, where the contrast is stark (either you consider things like <copy file= "myfile.txt" tofile="mycopy.txt"/> acceptable or you don't), and not enough on trying to inform the choice between the *other* tools. -- O.L.
