# Hoe 1.5.0 Released

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hoe-1-5-0-released/127672>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [January 31, 2008, 9:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hoe-1-5-0-released/127672 "2008-01-31T09:49:30Z")\
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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:** [January 31, 2008, 9:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hoe-1-5-0-released/127672/1 "2008-01-31T09:49:30Z")

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hoe version 1.5.0 has been released!

- [http://rubyforge.org/projects/seattlerb/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/seattlerb/)
- [http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/hoe/](http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/hoe/)
- [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)

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:

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

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

- [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)

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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:** [January 31, 2008, 10:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hoe-1-5-0-released/127672/2 "2008-01-31T10:10:40Z")

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Hi! Thanks for such a great tool!

But I’m having problem using sow:

$ sow foo  
/usr/bin/env: ruby -ws: No such file or directory

I’m using Linux and I think under Linux the sha-bang  
“#!/usr/bin/env ruby -ws” is not interpreted correctly.  
In fact, many Unix system generate only one argument  
for the sha-bang, thus “ruby -ws” is passed as _one_  
argument to /usr/bin/env.

I think there’re three ways to solve it:

- patch the kernel
- patch /usr/bin/env
- patch sow  
It looks like the 3rd solution is relatively cleaner.  
So I’m wondering would you please avoid such sha-bang  
in some future version?

Thanks!

2008/1/31, Ryan D. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid):