# Rdoc hoe dependency **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [August 9, 2008, 6:59am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rdoc-hoe-dependency/145429 "2008-08-09T06:59:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![PeSSSSaS\_Botp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/ecd19e/32.png) [@PeSSSSaS\_Botp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/PeSSSSaS_Botp)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2008, 6:59am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rdoc-hoe-dependency/145429/1 "2008-08-09T06:59:25Z")
For the benefit of us nubies, maybe rdoc should also update hoe if it finds it at lower version (cause otherwise it should not install since it would not run anyway). just a suggestion. eg botp@bgmisits:/usr/local/src/ruby-1.8.7-p71$ rdoc --all --ri /usr/local/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:578:in `report_activate_error': RubyGem version error: hoe(1.6.0 not >= 1.7.0) (Gem::LoadError) from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:134:in`activate’ from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:158:in `activate' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:157:in`each’ from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:157:in `activate' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:49:in`gem’ from /usr/local/bin/rdoc:18 botp@bgmisits:/usr/local/src/ruby-1.8.7-p71$ sudo gem install hoe [sudo] password for botp: Successfully installed hoe-1.7.0 1 gem installed Installing ri documentation for hoe-1.7.0… Installing RDoc documentation for hoe-1.7.0… botp@bgmisits:/usr/local/src/ruby-1.8.7-p71$ rdoc --all --ri … works fine now… kind regards -botp ---
**Author:** ![PeSSSSaS\_Botp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/ecd19e/32.png) [@PeSSSSaS\_Botp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/PeSSSSaS_Botp)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2008, 11:59am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rdoc-hoe-dependency/145429/2 "2008-08-09T11:59:52Z")
On Aug 8, 2008, at 21:57 , Peña, Botp wrote: > For the benefit of us nubies, maybe rdoc should also update hoe if > it finds it at lower version (cause otherwise it should not install > since it would not run anyway). just a suggestion. huh? rdoc shouldn’t update hoe or any other gem. Rubygems should… What I don’t understand is how you installed a newer rdoc that requires a newer hoe, but somehow didn’t update hoe. Either something messed up with your install and dependencies weren’t updated (usually they’re first tho) or… I have no idea. Actually… this is odd: dependencies: - !ruby/object:Gem::Dependency name: hoe type: :development version\_requirement: version\_requirements: !ruby/object:Gem::Requirement requirements: - - “\>=” - !ruby/object:Gem::Version version: 1.7.0 version: hoe is a developer dependency, so it shouldn’t be activated when you use the rdoc cmdline tool. I think you might have a mix of rdoc versions? ---
**Author:** ![PeSSSSaS\_Botp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/ecd19e/32.png) [@PeSSSSaS\_Botp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/PeSSSSaS_Botp)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2008, 1:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rdoc-hoe-dependency/145429/3 "2008-08-09T13:08:56Z")
On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Ryan D. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > type: :development > version\_requirement: > version\_requirements: !ruby/object:Gem::Requirement > requirements: > > - > - “\>=” > - !ruby/object:Gem::Version > version: 1.7.0 > version: > > hoe is a developer dependency, so it shouldn’t be activated when you use the > rdoc cmdline tool. I think you might have a mix of rdoc versions? Well well, thats not my experience at all, very strangely, gems that have hoe as build dependency end up requiring hoe, when I try to require the gem. In many cases, i had to edit the gemspec, to remove hoe as dependency. ---
**Author:** ![PeSSSSaS\_Botp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/ecd19e/32.png) [@PeSSSSaS\_Botp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/PeSSSSaS_Botp)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2008, 2:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rdoc-hoe-dependency/145429/4 "2008-08-14T02:31:12Z")
On Aug 8, 2008, at 21:57 PM, Peña, Botp wrote: > For the benefit of us nubies, maybe rdoc should also update hoe if > it finds it at lower version (cause otherwise it should not install > since it would not run anyway). just a suggestion. I think it is RubyGems’ bug that has since been fixed.