Rant is a flexible build tool written entirely in Ruby,
similar to Rake.

== What's new in this release?

* Dependency checking for C/C++ sources.
* Installing ".cmd" files on Windows with the Win32::RubyCmdWrapper.
* Convenient directory/file creation with SubFile.
* rant-import inlines specially marked, +require+ files.

I'd appreciate suggestions about new features, names, etc.

== Installing Rant

You can install Rant as a RubyGem:
% gem install --remote rant

or download the package from RubyForge(http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=615)
and install with install.rb:
% ruby install.rb

== More about Rant

The equivalent to a Makefile for make is the Rantfile. An
Rantfile is actually a valid Ruby script that is read by the
rant command.

Rant currently features:
* Defining custom tasks
* Automated packaging, testing and RDoc generation for Ruby
applications and libraries.
* Primitive support for compiling C# sources portably with csc, cscc
and mcs.
* Dependency checking for C/C++ source files.
* Multiple buildfiles (e.g. one per directory).
* The rant-import command creates a monolithic rant script,
so you don't depend on an rant installation anymore.
* A configure plugin for easy environment and build-parameter
checking (but not like autoconf!) which saves data in a yaml file.

== Resources

Current docs:: http://make.ruby-co.de
(BTW: Thanks to Jan Krueger for the nice URL :-)
Rubyforge page:: http://rubyforge.org/projects/make/

-- 
Stefan