Seattle.rb: July 2007 Archives

There is a certificate course at the UW starting this fall. It is 3 quarters long starting at rubynewb, then rails/web development, then rubyjedi. no, not the real titles. You are not required to take all three courses. do what feels right. To take just one:

http://www.extension.washington.edu/ext/certificates/rby/rby_sce.asp

There is space available. apparently, plenty of space... so take make this a success, if you are interested or suspect someone you know is interested, PLEASE, help make it happen.

DESCRIPTION:

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.

Changes:

1.2.2 / 2007-07-23

• 2 minor enhancement:
  • Added exclude parameter for check_manifest filtering to .hoerc.
  • Documented .hoerc stuffs.

• 1 bug fix:

  • Various (untested) fixes for windows compatibility.

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

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

We've not had anything reasonably challenging (at our perm job) since March, when I made the app 20x faster and massively cleaner/happier.

We'll (most likely) be going indie after this.

I'm hoping to finish up with some clients that I've currently got (I've been moonlighting) and take most or all of August off (or September if it gets pushed off too much). After that we'll come back to the consulting arena full force. rawr