Rake 0.4.0 is now available for download on Rubyforge (or as a gem file). Version 0.4.0 contains some minor bug fixes and some new functionality.

Changes Include:
* Load on demand file lists. FileLists now wait until their contents is required before searching the file system for matching files. This allows you to define several file lists in a Rakefile and only incur the overhead of building them if the lists are actually used.

* VAR=VALUE parameters are now allowed on the command line. The values are treated like environment variables and are available in the ENV hash within the Rakefile.

* Better file time stamp code.

I have also added a quick start example to the Rake project wiki (see http://rake.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl).

What Is Rake?

Rake is a make-like utility where the control file (dependencies and actions) is completely specified in standard Ruby code.