# Equivalent of scons?

**URL:** <https://rubytalk.org/t/equivalent-of-scons/15954>\
**Category:** ruby-talk\
**Created:** [22 January 2005 17:17 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/equivalent-of-scons/15954 "2005-01-22T17:17:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![PA1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/71c47a/32.png) [@PA1](https://rubytalk.org/u/PA1)\
**Post date:** [22 January 2005 17:17 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/equivalent-of-scons/15954/1 "2005-01-22T17:17:25Z")

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Hello,

Is there an equivalent to "scons" [1] in Ruby? More generally, is there any interesting build system using Ruby out there?

TIA.

Cheers

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> [1] [http://www.scons.org/](http://www.scons.org/)

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**Author:** ![Florian\_Gross](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9a140/32.png) [@Florian\_Gross](https://rubytalk.org/u/Florian_Gross)\
**Post date:** [22 January 2005 18:20 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/equivalent-of-scons/15954/2 "2005-01-22T18:20:55Z")

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PA wrote:

> Hello,

Moin.

> Is there an equivalent to "scons" [1] in Ruby? More generally, is there any interesting build system using Ruby out there?

Rake seems to be quite close. They don't share exactly the same goals, but it might be a good match anyway. See [http://rake.rubyforge.org/](http://rake.rubyforge.org/)

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**Author:** ![Tom\_Copeland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@Tom\_Copeland](https://rubytalk.org/u/Tom_Copeland)\
**Post date:** [22 January 2005 18:24 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/equivalent-of-scons/15954/3 "2005-01-22T18:24:54Z")

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There's rake:

[http://rake.rubyforge.org/](http://rake.rubyforge.org/)

"Rake is a Ruby make-like utility using standard Ruby syntax for the  
build specification file."

Yours,

Tom

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> On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 12:17, PA wrote:
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> > More generally, is there  
> > any interesting build system using Ruby out there?

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**Author:** ![Tom\_Copeland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@Tom\_Copeland](https://rubytalk.org/u/Tom_Copeland)\
**Post date:** [22 January 2005 18:25 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/equivalent-of-scons/15954/4 "2005-01-22T18:25:25Z")

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Doh! flgr beat me by 4 minutes! 🙂

Tom

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> On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 13:20, Florian Gross wrote:
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> > Rake seems to be quite close. They don't share exactly the same goals,  
> > but it might be a good match anyway. See [http://rake.rubyforge.org/](http://rake.rubyforge.org/)