Iron Rake, Iron Ruby, AKA Goodbye NAnt

2/9/2009 8:13:51 PM

Technologies

IronRuby 0.2 (Alpha)
IronRake
Dynamic Language Runtime
NAnt

With the release of the ASP.Net MVC Release Candidate I've started redoing www.evanclosson.com from the ground up because it was originally done with one of the earlier CTPs. Ramblings...

I'm really sick of using NAnt.
Programming in XML sucks.
Ruby and Rails is now my day job.
Rake is a great tool.
The dynamic language runtime is starting to get there.
IronRuby is starting to get there...

So I decided to use irake for my build and scripting tool on www.evanclosson.com.

Getting it setup wasn't the most intuitive thing. Installing gems didn't work. I didn't want to install ruby. I wanted ironruby completely locked into and versioned with my project all under source control while being isolated from anything else on my machine. (I have lots of projects and IronRuby is a moving target, also it helps keep the project all self contained). This post is full of ramblings, I'll try and post a how-to soon... but it works!

C:\DEV\EvanClosson2>irake build

(in C:/DEV/EvanClosson2)

"I am building"

C:\DEV\EvanClosson2>

Comments

Just came across your post on using Rake. it sounds like you're doing exactly what I'm interested in trying for my next project, except I'm suffering through msbuild rather than nant :-) If you get time to jot down how you made this work I for one would be grateful. And I definitely want it in svn for each project so that my .NET team members don't whine about having to install a--gasp--non microsoft language. Thanks.

Great information you got here. I've been reading about this topic for one week now for my papers in school and thank God I found it here in your blog. I had a great time reading this.

Aw, it was an extremely great post. Theoretically Id like to write similar to this also - taking time and real effort to produce a good article but exactly what can I say I procrastinate alot and never often get something done.

Evan Closson