Why do so many non ruby projects use ruby / rake as the build tool?

Like, bash is hard, I get it... but it works really well for gluing ci tasks together and it doesn't need to pull down a bunch of external libs.

Builds failing because your project depends on an old ruby version / code / deps isn't better.

Running everything through rake for a ruby project make sense, sure! Otherwise why are you wrapping a totally JS codebase's npm commands in a rakefile?

Just because bash can be intimidating doesn't mean that using ruby is the solution.

@tomheyes if the solution is adding ruby/rake, you are looking at the wrong problem 😜​

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