Rake is normally used as a build tool scripting language (if used for anything else, please do comment). I’ve been using it for almost 2 years in place of NAnt and MSBuild due to its programmability. Executing a concise script to do anything I want for my build process is a great bonus rather than writing complex XML configurations. At work, I hook this script into the team city build server (which supports running rake tasks). My tasks ranges from versioning, unit-tests, deploy to staging and manual click to deploy to production, without having server specific features. Anything the build server…