hoe version 2.9.0 has been released!

Published 2011-01-31 @ 16:17

Hoe is a rake/rubygems helper for project Rakefiles. It helps you manage and maintain, and release your project and includes a dynamic plug-in system allowing for easy extensibility. Hoe ships with plug-ins for all your usual project tasks including rdoc generation, testing, packaging, and deployment.

See class rdoc for help. Hint: ri Hoe or any of the plugins listed below.

For extra goodness, see: http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/hoe/Hoe.pdf

Changes:

2.9.0 / 2011-01-31

• 11 minor enhancements:

  • Added Hoe::Package#pkg_path to make package hook writing easier.
  • Added Hoe::Test#test_prelude to allow for code to run before test loading.
  • Added plugin?(name) to allow for easier plugin guarding in hoe spec.
  • Added support for multiple template dirs for sow.
  • Added support for rubygems-test. See http://www.gem-testers.org/
  • Clean up sow a LOT using: include FileUtils::Verbose
  • Don’t warn about missing plugins without rake -t
  • Hoe requires Gem::PackageTask from RubyGems 1.4+
  • Moved post_news from publish to rubyforge
  • Plugins can now be loaded from a +plugins+ array in ~/.hoerc
  • rubyforge plugin now uses plain globs to push. Fixes releases for rubygems itself

• 4 bug fixes:

  • Failed plugins should notify on both trace and debug.
  • Fixed rdoc_dir for custom rdoc locations
  • Fixed require ‘rubyforge’ that was too late
  • Fixed sow to properly rename dirs depth first
• http://rubyforge.org/projects/seattlerb/
• http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/hoe/
• http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/hoe/Hoe.pdf
• http://github.com/jbarnette/hoe-plugin-examples