Category Archives: Albacore

Albacore v0.2.0 Preview 2 Is Available

Posted on August 6, 2010 by Derick Bailey

I’ve pushed another preview release of albacore up to rubygems.org. This release builds on the changes that I talked about in the Preview 1 Notes and adds (what I think is) some great new capabilities for contributors and end-users, both. … Continue reading →

Also posted in Rake | 4 Comments

How To Build Custom Rake Tasks; The Right Way

Posted on July 26, 2010 by Derick Bailey

A long time ago (last year) I wrote a few blog posts that talked about how I was going about creating some custom rake tasks. This turned out to be the beginning of my albacore project and I’ve been working … Continue reading →

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Albacore v0.2.0 Preview 1 Is Available

Posted on July 14, 2010 by Derick Bailey

A few days ago I pushed a preview version of Albacore up to RubyGems. The intention of doing a preview release was to show everyone the new direction that Albacore is heading and to get feedback from the community on … Continue reading →

Also posted in .NET, Build Tools, Rake, Ruby | 7 Comments

Albacore Feature Preview: Building C# Code With CSC.exe

Posted on June 1, 2010 by Derick Bailey

I’ve been meaning to do this for a very long time… it’s been asked for multiple times and it’s been on my list of things to do for a very long time… but it’s finally happening! I’m finally putting a … Continue reading →

Also posted in .NET, C#, Rake, Unit Testing, Vim | 2 Comments

Albacore: Should We Continue To Support Ruby v1.8.6?

Posted on May 23, 2010 by Derick Bailey

Ruby 1.8.6 seems to be an outdated version at this point… but I can’t find any official information on the life cycle and support plans for this version. I’d like to drop support for Ruby 1.8.6 from albacore, but I’m … Continue reading →

Also posted in Ruby | 3 Comments

Vim+Grep: Find All Occurrences Of Text In Your Project

Posted on May 11, 2010 by Derick Bailey

I’m in the middle of some sweeping changes in albacore – changing the .path_to_command property to .command for all of the tasks that run an external tool. The core of the change is easy. I have a RunCommand module that … Continue reading →

Also posted in Productivity, Ruby, Smoke Test, Vim | 7 Comments

ZenTest+Autospec Is An RSpec TDDer’s Best Friend

Posted on May 3, 2010 by Derick Bailey

In all the time that I’ve been using RSpec (almost a year now), I never knew about the zentest or autospec tools until I was recently watching a code kata that was using Ruby and RSpec. … so, now I … Continue reading →

Also posted in Behavior Driven Development, Command Line, Continuous Integration, Productivity, Rake, RSpec, Ruby, Unit Testing, Vim | 3 Comments

Running Ruby And Rake (and albacore) Without Installing Them

Posted on March 23, 2010 by Derick Bailey

One of the more frequent complaints that I’ve heard about using Ruby and Rake to build .NET systems is that you have to install yet another framework and learn yet another language to be able to use it. In a … Continue reading →

Also posted in Rake, Ruby, Source Control | 6 Comments

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

Posted on November 27, 2009 by Derick Bailey

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 … Continue reading →

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Albacore: Come join the discussion!

Posted on November 25, 2009 by Derick Bailey

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 … Continue reading →

Also posted in Community, Rake, Ruby | 3 Comments