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Cake

Cake is a powerful and flexible Make-like utility tool. Make Tasks Great Again!

From axvm·Updated January 17, 2026·View on GitHub·

Cake is a powerful and flexible Make-like utility tool. Implement tasks on plain crystal-lang and Make Tasks Great Again! The project is written primarily in Crystal, distributed under the MIT License license, first published in 2017. Key topics include: cake, crystal, rake, ruby, tasks.

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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

shell
$ 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

Crystal
# 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

Development

  1. Implement feature and tests
  2. Create pull request
  3. ...
  4. Profit!

Contributing

  1. Fork it ( https://github.com/axvm/cake/fork )
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
  4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
  5. Create a new Pull Request

Contributors

  • [axvm] Alexander Marchenko - creator, maintainer
  • [alexandregv] Alexandre Guiot--Valentin - contributor

Contributors

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