Extending Rake

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+# Extending Rake
+
+Everyone who works with Ruby knows Rake. It builds things, it runs
+tasks, if you're on Rails it is even one of the entry points to your
+project. But there is more to it than what you can achieve with a
+simple Rakefile!
+
+Evoker (https://github.com/mpasternacki/evoker/) is a Rake extension
+gem for downloading third-party dependencies. Metarake
+(https://github.com/3ofcoins/metarake/) is an extension for building
+multiple child projects and publishing them outside the build root. I
+am going to quickly show the extensions themselves, and then dive into
+the interesting part: internal API of rake - extension points and ways
+of programmatically creating build tasks. The extensions will serve as
+example of how the extension points can be used, and how the resulting
+code can be tested.
+
+## Maciej Pasternacki
+
+Freelance DevOps Guy.
+
+Starting as a freelance developer in 2008, I soon gravitated towards
+managing Web infrastructure, continuous integration, build systems,
+etc. With decent background in both administration and programming, I
+develop agile infrastructure, trying to replace as much of shell
+script plumbing as possible with elegant Ruby recipes for Chef.
+
+[Profile picture](http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/1bd1f0ff92bed69bfb53eefa9fd606f8.png?s=150)
+
+## On the web
+
+- [Website](http://pasternacki.net/)
+- [Blog](http://3ofcoins.net/)
+- [Twitter](https://twitter.com/mpasternacki)
+- [GitHub](https://github.com/mpasternacki)
+- [GitHub 2](https://github.com/3ofcoins)