hoe version 1.7.0 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 - 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:

1.7.0 / 2008-06-30

• 3 minor enhancements:

  • Use rdoc 2.x gem if available. Eric likes his backslashes.
  • Added extradevdeps for new rubygems developer dependencies.
  • Switched hoe to dev dep. Fork off, bitches.
  • Finally got a sane test that does something. Hey... it's a start.

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

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