I've done some basic Google'n and haven't found any compelling reasons to choose Jake over Cake for my node.js build process (mostly just compiling *.coffee to *.js in correct folders). Can anyone provide a few quick bullet points of why one would choose Jake or Cake over the other?
If applicable: I am coming in from a Java/Grails/RoR developer point of view so I am familiar with ant/mvn/gradle/rake/etc...
https://github.com/mde/jake http://coffeescript.org/documentation/docs/cake.html
Please reopen this question! There is a def lack of comparisons/highlights on the www, so, or anywhere else and I need to draw on the community of those with direct experience with the tools. This topic has gather 43 views in the less than 24 hours, obviously a topic the community is interested in.
Jake is a lot similar to rake tool and is a real flexible build tool. Documentations gives some nice example of how to create and execute various tasks. Tasks can depend on each other and you can also pass properties to indicate from command line to build script. I am using Jake for my project and really love its simplicity.
Cake seems to a build tool for coffeescript. So, if you are using coffeescript then it may be a good tool for your project.
Another tool I have hearing about these days is gruntjs. Like jake this is a task based tool but it comes bundled with lot of tasks that you can start using quickly