# Hoe 1.4.0 Released

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hoe-1-4-0-released/123973>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [December 22, 2007, 11:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hoe-1-4-0-released/123973 "2007-12-22T23:47:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![aguynamedryan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/43a26b/32.png) [@aguynamedryan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/aguynamedryan)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2007, 11:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hoe-1-4-0-released/123973/1 "2007-12-22T23:47:29Z")

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hoe version 1.4.0 has been released!

- [http://rubyforge.org/projects/seattlerb/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/seattlerb/)
- [http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/hoe/](http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/hoe/)
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## 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:

### 1.4.0 / 2007-12-20

- 1 Major Enhancement:

- [http://rubyforge.org/projects/seattlerb/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/seattlerb/)

- [http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/hoe/](http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/hoe/)

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