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

Required Ruby Version

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Authors

Ryan Davis

Versions

  1. 4.7.1 July 03, 2026 (190 KB)
  2. 4.7.0 April 22, 2026 (190 KB)
  3. 4.6.1 February 23, 2026 (190 KB)
  4. 4.6.0 January 29, 2026 (190 KB)
  5. 4.5.2.beta.5 January 28, 2026 (190 KB)
  6. 1.5.2 May 20, 2008 (16.5 KB)
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