.Dd February 27, 2006 .Dt ERB 1 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm rake .Nd Ruby Make .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm rake .Op Fl f Ar rakefile .Op Ar options... .Ar targets... .Sh DESCRIPTION .Nm Rake is a simple .Xr ruby 1 build program with capabilities similar to the regular .Xr make 1 command. .Pp .Nm Rake has the following features: .Bl -bullet .It Rakefiles (Rake's version of Makefiles) are completely defined in standard .Nm Ruby syntax. No XML files to edit. No quirky Makefile syntax to worry about (is that a tab or a space?). .It Users can specify tasks with prerequisites. .It .Nm Rake supports rule patterns to sythesize implicit tasks. .It Flexible FileLists that act like arrays but know about manipulating file names and paths. .El .Pp For more information about .Nm Rake you can use its .Fl --help flag. There is also online documentation available at "http://docs.rubyrake.org". .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr make 1 .Xr ruby 1 .Sh AUTHORS Rake is written by .An Jim Weirich Aq jim@weirichhouse.org