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?
It is an alternative to Makefile with Ruby syntax.
As a follow-up, you may find these resources helpful:
- Using the Rake Build Language
- rake (there are good links here to additional tutorials or webcasts)
- Basic Rake (video of a talk by Jim Weirich)
- Power Rake (video of a talk by Jim Weirich)
Jim was the creator and maintainer of Rake before his death in 2014.
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2881482/what-is-a-rakefile