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Rebar is a feature rich Erlang build tool that makes it easy to compile and test Erlang applications, port drivers/executables and releases.

Why should I use it?

• Where possible, rebar uses standard Erlang/OTP conventions for project structures, thus minimizing the amount of the build configuration work necessary
• Rebar provides versatile dependency management, enabling application writers to easily re-use common libraries from a variety of locations (git, hg, etc)
• Being a self-contained Erlang script (escript), rebar makes it easy to distribute or even embed it directly into a project.

Documentation

• Getting Started
• Rebar and OTP Conventions
• Rebar Commands
• Dependency management
• Dynamic configuration
• Template Support
• Built-in templates
• Release Handling
• Upgrades

Presentations

• Dave Smith demonstrates conversion of an existing application to a rebar project
• Applied rebar (Common Patterns for Usage) by Dave Smith

Getting Help

Feel free to turn to the project's mailing list or ask questions on #rebar IRC channel at irc.freenode.net.

Extending rebar

• Building rebar from sources
• Extensions
• Deprecations

How rebar processes files

• Processing .app files
• Processing reltool.config
• Processing versions in configuration files