# Hoe does not like windows?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hoe-does-not-like-windows/118923>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [November 1, 2007, 11:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hoe-does-not-like-windows/118923 "2007-11-01T11:46:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Vassilis\_R](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/848f3c/32.png) [@Vassilis\_R](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Vassilis_R)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 11:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hoe-does-not-like-windows/118923/1 "2007-11-01T11:46:43Z")

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I get the following running rake -T on a project seeded for Hoe:

rake aborted!  
couldn’t find HOME environment – expanding `~/.hoerc’

ruby -v:  
ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13 patchlevel 0) [i386-mswin32]

and all gems are updated to latest.

Does hoe not run on windows?  
Cheers,  
V.-

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**Author:** ![Vassilis\_R](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/848f3c/32.png) [@Vassilis\_R](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Vassilis_R)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2007, 9:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hoe-does-not-like-windows/118923/2 "2007-11-01T21:19:36Z")

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The hoe docs refer to _untested_ Windows fixes, and I know the general  
atmosphere around it is certainly biased in favor of Unix. That’s  
about as much as I know.

On 11/1/07, Vassilis R. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> ## Does hoe not run on windows? Cheers, V.-
> 
> [http://www.braveworld.net/riva](http://www.braveworld.net/riva)

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**Author:** ![Vassilis\_R](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/848f3c/32.png) [@Vassilis\_R](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Vassilis_R)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2007, 3:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hoe-does-not-like-windows/118923/3 "2007-11-02T15:30:46Z")

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> ## Does hoe not run on windows? Cheers, V.-
> 
> [http://www.braveworld.net/riva](http://www.braveworld.net/riva)

Hoe will run on windows. You may just have to tweak things a bit.  
You need to add a HOME system environment variable. I have mine  
pointing to my %userprofile% path. I ran into a few other problems,  
but I can’t recall the details right now. If you get stuck, let me  
know .

hth,

Gordon

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**Author:** ![Vassilis\_R](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/848f3c/32.png) [@Vassilis\_R](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Vassilis_R)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 11:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/hoe-does-not-like-windows/118923/4 "2007-11-06T11:15:49Z")

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Gordon T. wrote:

> but I can’t recall the details right now. If you get stuck, let me  
> know .

Yep, setting the HOME variable did the trick.  
Cheers,  
V.-