# Hoe 2.1.0 Released

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hoe-2-1-0-released/170254>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [June 15, 2009, 2:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hoe-2-1-0-released/170254 "2009-06-15T02:34:42Z")\
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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:** [June 15, 2009, 2:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hoe-2-1-0-released/170254/1 "2009-06-15T02:34:42Z")

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hoe version 2.1.0 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 rake/rubygems helper for project Rakefiles. It helps generate  
rubygems 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.

Plug-ins Provided:

- Hoe::Clean
- Hoe::Debug
- Hoe::Deps
- Hoe::Flay
- Hoe::Flog
- Hoe::Inline
- Hoe::Package
- Hoe::Publish
- Hoe::RCov
- Hoe::Signing
- Hoe::Test

See class rdoc for help. Hint: ri Hoe

Changes:

### 2.1.0 / 2009-06-14

- 6 minor enhancements:

- 1 bug fix:

- [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:** [June 15, 2009, 7:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hoe-2-1-0-released/170254/2 "2009-06-15T19:58:15Z")

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I am trying to publish a gem using hoe 2.1.0 and I am running into  
following error.

> rake release VERSION=0.0.4  
> (in /Users/nkumar/dev/working/javascript\_lab)  
> \*\* README.markdown is missing or in the wrong format for auto-intuiting.  
> run `sow blah` and look at its text files  
> rm -r doc  
> rm -r pkg  
> mkdir -p pkg  
> cd pkg  
> tar zcvf javascript\_lab-0.0.4.tgz javascript\_lab-0.0.4  
> tar: javascript\_lab-0.0.4: Cannot stat: No such file or directory  
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors  
> rake aborted!  
> Command failed with status (2): [tar zcvf javascript\_lab-0.0.4.tgz  
> javascri…]

(See full trace by running task with --trace)

You can look at the source code at  
[http://github.com/neerajdotname/javascript\_lab/tree/master](http://github.com/neerajdotname/javascript_lab/tree/master)

I published it as a gem on github and it works fine. sudo gem install  
neerajdotname-javascript\_lab .

This is what I did to attempt to publish this gem to rubyforge.

rubyforge login  
rubyforge config. rubyforge config  
rake release VERSION=0.0.4

How do I create a directory called javascript\_lab-0.0.4 which ‘rake  
release’ is looking for. Looks like I missed a step.

Thanks

- Raj

- Also on hoe I could not find a way to mention that javascript\_lab is  
an executable. So I had to hand write the .gemspec.