Rake Alternatives

Alternatives list

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   SBT

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   SBT is a build tool for Scala. It is like Ant or Maven but with hieroglyphics.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux

   

   Good alternative?Is SBT a good alternative to Rake?

    
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   Cake

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   Cake (C# Make) is a cross-platform build automation system with a C# DSL for tasks such as compiling code, copying files and folders, running unit tests, compressing files and building NuGet packages.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (MIT)

   Application type

   • Build System

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux

   • United States

   

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   Good alternative?Is Cake a good alternative to Rake?

    
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   Phing

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   PHing Is Not GNU make; it's a PHP project build system or build tool based on ?Apache Ant. You can do anything with it that you could do with a traditional build system like GNU make, and its use of simple XML build files and extensible PHP "task" classes make it...

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux

   

   Good alternative?Is Phing a good alternative to Rake?

    
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   NAnt

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   NAnt is a free .NET build tool. In theory it is kind of like make without make's wrinkles. In practice it's a lot like Ant.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Proprietary

   Platforms

   • Windows

   

   Good alternative?Is NAnt a good alternative to Rake?

    
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   Buildr

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   Apache Buildr is a build system for Java-based applications, including support for Scala, Groovy and a growing number of JVM languages and tools. We wanted something that’s simple and intuitive to use, so we only need to tell it what to do, and it takes care of the rest.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Build System

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux

   

   Good alternative?Is Buildr a good alternative to Rake?

    
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   Task

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   Task is a task runner / build tool that aims to be simpler and easier to use than, for example, GNU Make.

   39 Task alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (MIT)

   Platforms

   • Windows
   • Mac
   • Linux
   • Go (Programming Language)

   

   Good alternative?Is Task a good alternative to Rake?

    
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   RiotKit Do

    1 like

   RKD: Task executor - balance between Makefile and Gradle. Written in Python. Powerful tool for every DevOps. Automates production tasks as well as local development tasks.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (Apache-2.0)

   Application type

   • Build System

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • BSD

   

   

   

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    Setup.shl

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    setup - A simple Bash library for setting up a directory structure using Makefile-like definitions.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Chrome OS

    S

    

    Good alternative?Is Setup.shl a good alternative to Rake?

     
11. W

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    Werk

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    Werk is a command runner and simplistic build system. It is intended to supplant Make in projects that need a simple build tool adjacent to a main build system, such as Cargo or NPM.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (Apache-2.0)

    Application type

    • Build System

    Platforms

    • Rust
    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • BSD

    W

    

    Good alternative?Is Werk a good alternative to Rake?

     
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    xmake

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    xmake is a cross-platform build utility based on Lua. The project focuses on making development and building easier and provides many features (e.g package, install, plugin, macro, action, option, task ...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (Apache-2.0)

    Application type

    • Build System

    Origin

    • China

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone

    • China

    

    

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    Good alternative?Is xmake a good alternative to Rake?

     
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    Nx

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    Next generation build system with first class monorepo support and powerful integrations.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    • Build System

    Origin

    • United States

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted

    • United States

    

    

    

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    Good alternative?Is Nx a good alternative to Rake?

     
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    Reggae build system

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    Reggae is a (meta) build system with multiple front (D, Python, Ruby, Javascript, Lua) and backends (make, ninja, tup, custom). This is alpha software, only tested on Linux and likely to have breaking changes made.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (BSD-3-Clause)

    Application type

    • Build System

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux

    

    Good alternative?Is Reggae build system a good alternative to Rake?