[Ruby] [ANN] hoe 1.5.0 Released

Ryan Davis ryand-ruby at zenspider.com
Thu Jan 31 00:49:01 PST 2008


hoe version 1.5.0 has been released!

* <http://rubyforge.org/projects/seattlerb/>
* <http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/hoe/>
* <ryand-ruby at zenspider.com>

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 at zenspider.com>



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