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Rake and SCons aren't exactly comparible. Rake is a tool for writing common
tasks while SCons is better to be compared with autotools or cmake, a C/C++
build tool.

For C extensions, there is rake-compiler that automates a bunch of stuff for
you and works on all platforms. Other than that it's either been setup.rb or
doing it yourself.

Jason

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Steve Klabnik <steve / steveklabnik.com>wrote:

> The standard is Rake.
>
> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 9:12 PM, Nick Sabalausky <
> hmcfryxhbmyac / mailinator.com> wrote:
>
> > First of all, I'd like to point out that while the "What does this Ruby
> > code do?" CAPTCHA when signing up at ruby-forum.com is admittedly a very
> > clever idea, it's a bit of a pain for Ruby novices like me. You have to
> > know Ruby in order to get help on Ruby? Anyway, I don't mean to say that
> > just to complain, I just felt it worth pointing out.
> >
> > My main question is actually pretty simple: Does anyone know if there is
> > a Ruby-based tool/library that's comparable to SCons?
> >
> > (For those who don't know, SCons is a Python library (plus a helper
> > tool) that serves as a much cleaner/saner (at least IMO) alternative to
> > makefiles. But, although I've never actually written any Ruby code
> > before (yet), I've looked into the syntax and from what I've seen I like
> > it *much* better than Python.)
> > --
> > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
> >
> >
>

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