We forked craken
We forked craken today and fixed one of the issues we had with new (>0.8.7) rake versions.
The craken:install rake task raised a "can't convert Hash into String" error e.g. while deploying with Capistrano.
https://github.com/makandra/craken Show archive.org snapshot
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