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<ol class='toc'>
  <li>"Quick Start":quick_start.html</li>
  <li>"Installing and Running":installing.html</li>
  <li>"Projects":projects.html</li>
  <li>"Building":building.html</li>
  <li>"Artifacts":artifacts.html</li>
  <li>"Packaging":packaging.html</li>
  <li>"Testing":testing.html</li>
  <li>"Settings & Profiles":settings_profiles.html</li>
  <li>"Languages":languages.html</li>
  <li>"More Stuff":more_stuff.html</li>
  <li>"Extending Buildr":extending.html</li>
  <li>"Contributing":contributing.html</li>
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Copyright 2007-2009 Apache Buildr

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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"Daniel Spiewak":http://www.codecommit.com/blog:

bq. If you think about it, the question isn’t “Why use Buildr?”, it’s really “Why use anything else?” The advantages afforded by Buildr are so substantial, I really can’t see myself going with any other tool, at least not when I have a choice.

"Tristan Juricek":http://tristanhunt.com/:

bq. That’s still the strongest sell: it builds everything I need, and as I’ve needed more, I just got things working without a lot of fuss.

"Matthieu Riou":http://offthelip.org/:

bq. We used to rely on Ant, with a fairly extensive set of scripts. It worked but was expensive to maintain. The biggest mistake afterward was to migrate to Maven2. I could write pages of rants explaining all the problems we ran into and we still ended up with thousands of lines of XML.

"Martin Grotzke":http://www.javakaffee.de/blog/:

bq. The positive side effect for me as a java user is that I learn a little ruby, and that’s easy but lots of fun… :-)
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