Hoe is a rake/rubygems helper for project Rakefiles. It helps you manage, 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, deployment, and announcement.

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

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

Features/Problems:

• Includes a dynamic plug-in system allowing for easy extensibility.

• Auto-intuits changes, description, summary, and version.

• Uses a manifest for safe and secure deployment.

• Provides ‘sow’ for quick project directory creation.

• Sow uses a simple ERB templating system allowing you to capture your project patterns.