1= Rake 0.9.3 Released 2 3Rake version 0.9.3 is mainly bug fixes. 4 5== Changes 6 7* The rake test loader now removes arguments it has processed. Issue #51 8* Rake::TaskArguments now responds to #values_at 9* RakeFileUtils.verbose_flag = nil silences output the same as 0.8.7 10* Rake tests are now directory-independent 11* Rake tests are no longer require flexmock 12* Commands constant is no longer polluting top level namespace. 13* Show only the interesting portion of the backtrace by default (James M. Lawrence). 14* Added --reduce-compat option to remove backward compatible DSL hacks (James M. Lawrence). 15 16== What is Rake 17 18Rake is a build tool similar to the make program in many ways. But 19instead of cryptic make recipes, Rake uses standard Ruby code to 20declare tasks and dependencies. You have the full power of a modern 21scripting language built right into your build tool. 22 23== Availability 24 25The easiest way to get and install rake is via RubyGems ... 26 27 gem install rake (you may need root/admin privileges) 28 29Otherwise, you can get it from the more traditional places: 30 31Home Page:: http://rake.rubyforge.org/ 32Download:: http://rubyforge.org/project/showfiles.php?group_id=50 33GitHub:: git://github.com/jimweirich/rake.git 34 35== Thanks 36 37As usual, it was input from users that drove a alot of these changes. The 38following people either contributed patches, made suggestions or made 39otherwise helpful comments. Thanks to ... 40 41* James M. Lawrence (quix) 42* Roger Pack 43* Cezary Baginski 44* Sean Scot August Moon 45* R.T. Lechow 46* Alex Chaffee 47* James Tucker 48* Matthias Lüdtke 49* Santiago Pastorino 50 51Also, bit thanks to Eric Hodel for assisting with getting this release 52out the door (where "assisting" includes, but is not by any means 53limited to, "pushing" me to get it done). 54 55-- Jim Weirich 56