Rake Alternatives

Rake is described as 'Software task management and build automation tool. It allows you to specify tasks and describe dependencies as well as to group tasks in a namespace' and is a Build System in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Rake for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD and Self-Hosted apps. The best Rake alternative is CMake, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Rake are GNU Make, Maven, Gradle and Ant.

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  1. SBT icon

    SBT

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    SBT is a build tool for Scala. It is like Ant or Maven but with hieroglyphics.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  2. Cake icon

    Cake

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    Cake (C# Make) is a cross-platform build automation system with a C# DSL for tasks such as compiling code, copying files and folders, running unit tests, compressing files and building NuGet packages.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • US flagUnited States
    Cake screenshot 1
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  4. Phing icon

    Phing

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    PHing Is Not GNU make; it's a PHP project build system or build tool based on ?Apache Ant. You can do anything with it that you could do with a traditional build system like GNU make, and its use of simple XML build files and extensible PHP "task" classes make it...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  5. NAnt icon

    NAnt

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    NAnt is a free .NET build tool. In theory it is kind of like make without make's wrinkles. In practice it's a lot like Ant.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  6. Buildr icon

    Buildr

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    Apache Buildr is a build system for Java-based applications, including support for Scala, Groovy and a growing number of JVM languages and tools. We wanted something that’s simple and intuitive to use, so we only need to tell it what to do, and it takes care of the rest.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  8. Task icon

    Task

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    Task is a task runner / build tool that aims to be simpler and easier to use than, for example, GNU Make.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Go (Programming Language)
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  9. RiotKit Do icon

    RiotKit Do

     1 like

    RKD: Task executor - balance between Makefile and Gradle. Written in Python. Powerful tool for every DevOps. Automates production tasks as well as local development tasks.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    RiotKit Do screenshot 1
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  10. S

    Setup.shl

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    setup - A simple Bash library for setting up a directory structure using Makefile-like definitions.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Chrome OS
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  11. W

    Werk

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    Werk is a command runner and simplistic build system. It is intended to supplant Make in projects that need a simple build tool adjacent to a main build system, such as Cargo or NPM.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Rust
    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • BSD
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  12. xmake icon

    xmake

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    xmake is a cross-platform build utility based on Lua. The project focuses on making development and building easier and provides many features (e.g package, install, plugin, macro, action, option, task ...

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • CN flagChina
    xmake screenshot 1
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  13. Nx icon

    Nx

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    Next generation build system with first class monorepo support and powerful integrations.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • US flagUnited States
    Nx screenshot 1
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  14. Reggae build system icon

    Reggae build system

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    Reggae is a (meta) build system with multiple front (D, Python, Ruby, Javascript, Lua) and backends (make, ninja, tup, custom). This is alpha software, only tested on Linux and likely to have breaking changes made.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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