README.md

Fake - Fancy automation

Fake is a new work-in-progress build and automation tool for Fancy, similar to Ruby's Rake.

Tasks

Fake allows the definition of tasks that may depend on other tasks to complete.

Given a Fakefile with the following contents:

Fake tasks: {
  clean: {
    desc: "Remove all *.fyc files"
    run: {
      sh: ("rm", "-rf", Directory list: "**/*.fyc") verbose: true
    }
  }
}

You can invoke it like so:

$ fake clean

To list all available tasks run:

$ fake -T
fake clean    |  Remove all *.fyc files

To see a list of general options use the help command:

$ fake --help

Specifying dependencies

You can specify dependencies via the depends option, like so:

Fake tasks: {
  task_a: {
    desc: "This task shall be run before task_b"
    run: {
      "Running task a" println
    }
  }

  task_b: {
     desc: "This tasks depends on task_a"
     depends: 'task_a # pass an array of task names if you depend on more than one task
     run: {
       "Running task b" println
     }
  }
}

When no task is specified the default task will be run (as with Rake).

Note:

This is still in the making. More features coming soon, but defining basic tasks and dependencies between them works fine already.