hoe version 1.5.0 has been released!

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 - Generate email announcement 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 only.
• install - Install the package. Uses PREFIX and RUBYLIB
• 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. Use FILTER to add to the command line.
• test_deps - Show which test files fail when run alone.
• uninstall - Uninstall the package.

See class rdoc for help. Hint: ri Hoe

Changes:

1.5.0 / 2008-01-30

• 9 Minor Enhancements:

  • Added autopopulation of changes from History.txt.
  • Added autopopulation of urls from History.txt.
  • Added autopopulation of description from History.txt
  • Added autopopulation of summary from description.
  • Added description_sections to declare what sections of readme to use.
  • Added summary_sentences to declare how many sentences you want in summary.
  • Added developer(name, email) to cleanly populate both author/email arrays.
  • author and email now default to "doofus".
  • author and email warn that they'll blow up on 2008-04-01.

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

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