Rake is a Make-like program implemented in Ruby. Tasks and dependencies are specified in standard Ruby syntax. Rake has the following features: * Rakefiles (rake's version of Makefiles) are completely defined in standard Ruby syntax. No XML files to edit. No quirky Makefile syntax to worry ...

Thor is a toolkit for building powerful command-line interfaces.

a class factory and dsl for generating command line programs real quick

Hanami framework to build command line interfaces with Ruby

Boson is a modular command/task framework. Thanks to its rich set of plugins, it differentiates itself from rake and thor by being usable from irb and the commandline, having optional automated views generated by hirb and allowing libraries to be written as plain ruby. Works with ruby >= 1.9.2

Command line utility framework

Sake tastes great and helps maintain system-level Rake files.