What is a Rakefile?

bragboy picture bragboy · May 21, 2010 · Viewed 35.5k times · Source

I have started learning Ruby and just tried out my first hello world program in NetBeans IDE. I have one doubt, I can see that the new project wizard created set of package structure. It had one "Rakefile" in it. What does that mean and what is the use of it?

Answer

Lucas picture Lucas · May 21, 2010

It is an alternative to Makefile with Ruby syntax.