Just the other day, I thought I’d try the latest IronRuby to see if I could start using this and Rake in my .NET projects. Low and behold, it’s working great :)

It seems more and more folks are using Rake to automate .NET development tasks. This is great news, and I hope we’ll soon see a community effort to make Rake even more valuable for the .NET developer.

I’ve been using with Ruby Rake a few .NET projects (here’s how) for a few weeks now. I’m enjoying it a lot. Here’s why:

I just blogged about setting up Rake with .NET. Based on a few resources online (and some Ruby experience), I’ve cobbled together a quick Rakefile.rb that can build, test and analyze a solution.

Many people have discovered that Rake is a lean, mean, build assisting machine. Even better, some .NET developers enjoying it too. It’s even been praised by some of the industry’s best.