Cake

Cake is a powerful and flexible Make-like utility tool. Implement tasks on plain crystal-lang and Make Tasks Great Again!

Installation

Execute command to install Cake

$ curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/axvm/cake/master/install.sh | bash

Usage

Develop tasks in plain Crystal code in Cakefile and run them via $ cake :task_name

bin/cake

  Usage:
    cake task_name
    cake -T

  Options:
    -T, --tasks                      Show all tasks
    -h, --help                       This info
    -v, --version                    Show version

Cakefile sample

# Define task
task :task_name do
  # task logic
end

# Define task with description
desc "task useful description"
task :some_task do
  # 2 + 1
end

# Run one task from another
desc "invoke example"
task :first do
  # -Infinity / 0
  invoke! :second
end

task :second do
  # yay we are here!
end

# Execute shell commands
task :build do
  execute "shards build"

  # or with sweet logs
  execute(
    cmd: "shards build",
    announce: "Building binary...",
    success: "Binary built!",
    error: "Build failed."
  )
end

# Log things
task :deploy do
  # your deploy code
  log "Deploy successful!"
  log "Or errored.", 1
end