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Interviews about Rake

Jim Weirich Discusses Rake, the Ruby Make Tool by Jim Weirich Posted on Apr 17, 2008 Jim Weirich, is the Chief Scientist for EdgeCase LLC and thecreator of rake, the popular make-like build tool written in Ruby. In this interview with InfoQ, Jim disccusses the birth of rake, Domain Specific Languages, and flexmock, his mocking library.

Articles about Rake

Ruby on Rails case study: ChangingThePresent.org by Bruce Tate Posted on Mar 26, 2007 Bruce Tate, author and CTO of ChangingThePresent.org gives a glimpse inside the day to day operations of ChangeThePresent.org with a broad overview of how his team works, the technology trusted for production environments, tools, and most important Rails frameworks.

Agile Asset Management with Ruby DSLs by Jeremy Voorhis Posted on May 22, 2006 Ruby makes it easy to craft Domain-Specific-Languages with Ruby syntax. This article is a story about the benefits derived from implementing a Ruby DSL for a PLANET ARGON development project.

Presentations about Rake

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JRuby: Not Just Another JVM Language by Charles Nutter Posted on Apr 18, 2008 In this presentation from QCon San Francisco 2007, Charles Nutter discusses the Ruby and JRuby featureset, the JRuby compiler, calling Java from JRuby and vice versa, programming Swing with JRuby, JRuby web applications, JRuby on Rails, persistence, build automation, Test-Driven Development and Behaviour-Driven Development.

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Ruby and the Art of Domain Specific Languages by Rick Kilmer Posted on Feb 22, 2008 Rich Kilmer explains Domain Specific Languages and how they help working with domain experts. The presentation includes an overview of styles of external and internal DSLs in Ruby and explains implicit and explicit styles, complete with advantages and trade-offs of either approach. The presentation is rounded off with a look at imperative and declarative styles of DSLs.