I find the use of rake to be kind of unorthodox, and yet I don't know what else you'd use in the Go world, other than maybe just Makefiles. Any particular reason to choose Rake? It's probably not easy to get it running on Windows based on my experience playing with Rails on Windows.

Other than that it looks quite useful, and it's definitely something to keep in the tool belt. Bonus points for the subtle Undertale references too :)

I'm also curious about this. It seems that many go developers out there are using Makefiles. Makefiles are a good solution for golang projects in some cases, but I've seen a lot of people really abusing Makefiles and trying to use them for more generic task running.

In a past life, we used invoke [1] for task running. It was incredible but has the same problem as rake: it introduces another language (Python) and more dependencies.

There's a fairly new task runner being developed in go called mage [2], but it didn't seem worth the jump yet to me as it's still pretty immature (I haven't played with it in a few months, though). Did you consider trying that out?

[1] https://github.com/pyinvoke/invoke [2] https://github.com/magefile/mage