Jim Weirich Discusses Rake, the Ruby Make Tool

Summary

Jim Weirich, is the Chief Scientist for EdgeCase LLC and thecreator of rake, the popular make-like build tool written in Ruby. In this interview with InfoQ, Jim disccusses the birth of rake, Domain Specific Languages, and flexmock, his mocking library.

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Jim Weirich is the Chief Scientist for EdgeCase LLC, and is the creator of rake, the popular make-like build tool written in Ruby. Jim is very active in the Ruby community, presenting at many conferences and contributing to open source projects such as RubyGems. Jim blogs at http://onestepback.