Maven... finally.

I've started to use Maven more the last week or 2 with MyEclipse. I don't have it totally setup yet as an external tool, but that'll come soon. Pretty good so far. I quite happy with it.

So far my only complaints are that I didn't understand how to use a jar that wasn't open source (or couldn't be put in a repo), but I found a helpful post on how to do it (hint: use the install:install-file target). Annnnyyyyways.. it's great being able to quickly have different lib's used in your project and then make a site that has all kinds of reporting on it.

My question about the RoR fanclub is that is there such a thing for that env as well? After a quick search I found a code coverage tool for RoR called rcov. I'd assume that since testing is built right into the framework that most of the "build" tools would be as well.

Not that I ever really wrote an ant script, but I don't think that I would ever use one if I can just use maven now. Finally, some convention over configuration in Java... baby steps.