# Hoe and GemCutter

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hoe-and-gemcutter/177905>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [October 26, 2009, 4:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hoe-and-gemcutter/177905 "2009-10-26T16:13:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![james-calivar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@james-calivar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/james-calivar)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2009, 4:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hoe-and-gemcutter/177905/1 "2009-10-26T16:13:40Z")

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Hi all,

This is really targeted at the Hoe developers but I’m asking it here so  
everyone can see the response.

In light of [http://update.gemcutter.org/2009/10/26/transition.html](http://update.gemcutter.org/2009/10/26/transition.html), will  
Hoe  
be swapping out its Rubyforge publishing features for GemCutter  
compatibility? Is it already supported? I use Hoe for all the gems I  
write  
and love its easy publishing, so would be good to get GemCutter support  
quickly.

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**Author:** ![james-calivar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@james-calivar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/james-calivar)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2009, 4:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hoe-and-gemcutter/177905/2 "2009-10-26T16:27:43Z")

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On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 8:12 AM, James C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
wrote:

> In light of [http://update.gemcutter.org/2009/10/26/transition.html](http://update.gemcutter.org/2009/10/26/transition.html), will Hoe  
> be swapping out its Rubyforge publishing features for GemCutter  
> compatibility? Is it already supported? I use Hoe for all the gems I write  
> and love its easy publishing, so would be good to get GemCutter support  
> quickly.

I’ll be rolling initial Gemcutter-style support into the hoe-rubygems  
plugin, and we’ll see what Ryan thinks about a release of Hoe proper  
after that settles down.

~ j.

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**Author:** ![james-calivar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@james-calivar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/james-calivar)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2009, 4:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hoe-and-gemcutter/177905/3 "2009-10-26T16:49:24Z")

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On Oct 26, 2009, at 11:27 AM, John B. wrote:

> I’ll be rolling initial Gemcutter-style support into the hoe-rubygems  
> plugin, and we’ll see what Ryan thinks about a release of Hoe proper  
> after that settles down.

Yeah, Ara and I were talking about the rubyforge library on that  
[update.gemcutter.org](http://update.gemcutter.org)  
thread. Probably we’ll update the rubyforge library to just stub  
out most things but to run a “gem push” at the appropriate time. So  
mostly we’ll be deleting the other inapplicable functionality  
(create\_package, add\_release, etc.).

But rewriting bits of hoe is probably the right way to go long-term.

Yours,

Tom