diff --git a/.github/workflows/test-integration.yml b/.github/workflows/test-integration.yml
index ff4f6fc..4c58ec7 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test-integration.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test-integration.yml
@@ -42,13 +42,13 @@ jobs:
           key: ${{ runner.os }}-go-${{ hashFiles('**/go.sum') }}
           restore-keys: |
             ${{ runner.os }}-go-
-      - name: Build binary
-        run: script/build
       - name: Setup Ruby
         uses: ruby/setup-ruby@v1
         with:
           ruby-version: '2.7'
           bundler-cache: true
+      - name: Build binary
+        run: rake build
       - name: Install ZSH on ubuntu
         if: matrix.os == 'ubuntu-latest'
         run: sudo apt-get -y install zsh
diff --git a/Rakefile b/Rakefile
index ec78759..3888f4f 100644
--- a/Rakefile
+++ b/Rakefile
@@ -1,19 +1,11 @@
 require 'rake/clean'
+CLEAN.include FileList.new("tmp/*") # aruba's default tmp directory is local
 
-# aruba's default tmp directory is local
-CLEAN.include FileList.new("tmp/*")
-
-# runs the generate script, which will bootstrap anything it needs in script
-desc "generates bindata files"
-task :generate do
-  sh "go generate ./..."
-end
-
-# the unix build script does not force `generate` as prereq, but the task here
-# does since we want to always make sure to be up to date with any changes made
 desc "builds the binary"
-task :build => :generate do
-  sh "script/build"
+task :build do
+  # note starting in go1.18 this information will be available via go version -m
+  version = `git describe --tags HEAD`
+  sh "go", "build", "-o", "bin/scmpuff", "-ldflags", "-X main.VERSION=#{version}"
 end
 
 desc "builds & installs the binary to $GOPATH/bin"
diff --git a/main.go b/main.go
index c4286f1..fb3cb90 100644
--- a/main.go
+++ b/main.go
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ var NAME = "scmpuff"
 
 // VERSION is the default version of the program
 // ...in almost all cases this should be overriden by the buildscript.
-var VERSION = "0.?.? (not using buildscript)"
+var VERSION = "0.0.0-development"
 
 var puffCmd = &cobra.Command{
 	Use:   "scmpuff",
diff --git a/script/build b/script/build
deleted file mode 100755
index 0ba33e4..0000000
--- a/script/build
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-# Usage: build
-#
-# Run go build without dependencies.
-set -ex
-
-VERSION="$(git describe --tags HEAD)"
-go build -o bin/scmpuff -ldflags "-X main.VERSION=${VERSION}"
diff --git a/script/build.bat b/script/build.bat
deleted file mode 100644
index b5174a0..0000000
--- a/script/build.bat
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-@echo off
-
-bash script\build %*