Blog posts tagged by Cake
When I started working on Cake in 2014, I did it to scratch an itch I had. FAKE existed (which has been a tremendous initial inspiration), but I didn't know F# enough (at all) to be confident enough to bet our build process on it.
I recently started moving some builds from TeamCity, Travis, and AppVeyor to GitHub actions, and while doing that, I thought I would also move to a more straightforward deployment process.
In this blog post I will show you how to use Cake with your AppVeyor CI builds.
Cake supports something called script aliases. Script aliases are convenience methods that are easily accessible directly from a Cake script. Every API method in Cake is implemented like this.
I have during my nine years as a (professional) programmer used several different build automation systems such as Rake, psake, CMake, TFS Build and FAKE, but none of these have allowed me to write my build scripts using C# - the language I use the most.