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/usr/bin/rake
Ruby Make

Rake is a simple Ruby build program with capabilities similar to the regular make command.

/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.6/usr/bin/rake
Build tool for automating tasks

Rake is a software task management and build automation tool created by Jim Weirich. It allows the user to specify tasks and describe dependencies as well as to group tasks in a namespace. It is similar in to SCons and Make. It's written in the Ruby programming language and the Rakefiles (equivalent of Makefiles in Make) use Ruby syntax.

The binary is a part of Ruby public framework.