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Albacore: All A-Twitter With A New Logo, Tag Line, And URL

There’s been a lot of fun things happening with Albacore over the holiday weekend. The Discussion Group First, there was the Google Groups announcement to coordinate the community. It’s taken off fairly well with our first call for help, and an answer...

Published Fri, Nov 11 2009 3:24 PM by derick.bailey

Filed under: Community, Rake, Ruby, Albacore
Albacore: Come join the discussion!

There’s been a whirlwind of activity around the Albacore rake tasks recently. Steve Harman has started using it at VersionOne . Ben Hall has been contributing some great patches and tasks. My friends and former coworkers at my previous job are using it...

Published Tue, Nov 11 2009 8:58 PM by derick.bailey

Filed under: Community, Rake, Ruby, Albacore
Albacore: Breaking Changes In Location Of Executables

I was working on cleaning up Albacore this weekend, and I noted that both the NCoverConsole and MSBuild tasks in Albacore both require the location of the .exe, to execute. The MSBuild task defaults itself to the .NET 3.5 SP1 folder, if none is specified...

Published Sun, Oct 10 2009 3:20 PM by derick.bailey

Filed under: Refactoring, Rake, Ruby, Albacore
Albacore AssemblyInfo Task vs. Nant Assembly Info Generator

Here’s one of the reasons I like Rake and my custom Rake tasks that I’m building into Albacore , so much. To generate some assembly information such as version, company name, copyright, etc., you need to do this with nant: 1: <? xml version ="1...

Published Tue, Sep 09 2009 11:06 AM by derick.bailey

Filed under: .NET, Rake, Ruby, Productivity, Albacore
Albacore: A Suite Of Rake Build Tasks For .NET Solutions

After my previous post on building a “real” rake task , I decided to dive in head first and learn how to get this stuff done. I chose to drive the tasks out via rspec, through a TDD process, and I created a couple of rake tasks that are proving to be...

Published Wed, Sep 09 2009 11:14 AM by derick.bailey

Filed under: .NET, Continuous Integration, C#, Rake, Ruby, Git, Albacore
Help! E-Text Editor Can’t Run My Rake Tasks…

I downloaded the E-Text Editor to work with my ruby / rake stuff, because it’s a great editor and because it supports all of the TextMate bundles. The idea is that I should be able to run all of my Rake tasks and RSpec tests directly from E. However,...

Published Fri, Sep 09 2009 9:37 AM by derick.bailey

Filed under: Rake, Ruby
An Alternate Way To Handle Task Dependencies In Custom Rake Tasks

Earlier today, I showed how to create a custom Rake task from the base TaskLib , so that we can use more than just simple “task :name” syntax for our rake tasks. In that example, I showed how to add explicit support for task dependencies by adding a second...

Published Thu, Sep 09 2009 8:30 PM by derick.bailey

Filed under: Lambda Expressions, Rake, Ruby, Craftsmanship
How A .NET Developer Hacked Out A Rake Task

I spent the last two days having my brain melted by Scott Bellware , in a crash course on Ruby , Rake , RSpec , Selenium , web UI test automation best practices, and all-around uber-normal-person-language-oriented development. It was great! After the...

Published Thu, Sep 09 2009 11:19 AM by derick.bailey

Filed under: .NET, Lambda Expressions, C#, Rake, Ruby, Craftsmanship
How A .NET Developer Learned Ruby And Rake, To Build .NET Apps In Windows

I recently decided it was time for me to learn Ruby and Rake – with the specific goal of replacing my NAnt scripts in some projects, due to the high level of complexity and logic that I need in the build process. After asking around the LosTechies crew...

Published Wed, Apr 04 2009 11:01 AM by derick.bailey

Filed under: .NET, Continuous Integration, Education, Rake, Ruby

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Albacore: All A-Twitter With A New Logo, Tag Line, And URL

Albacore: Come join the discussion!

Albacore: Breaking Changes In Location Of Executables

Albacore AssemblyInfo Task vs. Nant Assembly Info Generator

Albacore: A Suite Of Rake Build Tasks For .NET Solutions

Help! E-Text Editor Can’t Run My Rake Tasks…

An Alternate Way To Handle Task Dependencies In Custom Rake Tasks

How A .NET Developer Hacked Out A Rake Task

How A .NET Developer Learned Ruby And Rake, To Build .NET Apps In Windows