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Hoe is a simple rake/rubygems helper for project Rakefiles. It generates all the usual tasks for projects including rdoc generation, testing, packaging, and deployment.

Tasks Provided:

• announce - Create news email file and post to rubyforge.
• audit - Run ZenTest against the package.
• check_manifest - Verify the manifest.
• clean - Clean up all the extras.
• config_hoe - Create a fresh ~/.hoerc file.
• debug_gem - Show information about the gem.
• default - Run the default tasks.
• docs - Build the docs HTML Files
• email - Generate email announcement file.
• gem - Build the gem file hoe-1.5.0.gem
• generate_key - Generate a key for signing your gems.
• install_gem - Install the package as a gem.
• multi - Run the test suite using multiruby.
• package - Build all the packages
• post_blog - Post announcement to blog.
• post_news - Post announcement to rubyforge.
• publish_docs - Publish RDoc to RubyForge.
• release - Package and upload the release to rubyforge.
• ridocs - Generate ri locally for testing.
• test - Run the test suite.
• test_deps - Show which test files fail when run alone.

See class rdoc for help. Hint: ri Hoe

Changes:

1.5.1 / 2008-03-04

• 2 Minor Enhancements:

  • Removed install/uninstall tasks. Too buggy. Gems do a better job.
  • Added cleaning of rbc files to default list

• 5 Bug Fixes:

  • Correctly deal with errors intuiting history and readme files. Thanks Aaron!
  • Fixed rdoc title. Thanks, Sander!
  • Fixed sow to match new Rakefile and History format. Thanks, me!
  • Moved test/unit to the front for rake test. Fixes use of miniunit.
  • Renamed shadowed variable.

• http://rubyforge.org/projects/seattlerb/

• http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/hoe/
• ryand-ruby@zenspider.com