History.rdoc

4.6.1 / 2026-02-23

• 1 minor enhancement:

  • Added -C dir arg to sow to cd to dir before creating so I can test local changes easier.

• 2 bug fixes:

  • Fixes for a very buggy rdoc… wtf

  • Switch to pp for debug_gem. Long file lists are finally readable. Gem#to_ruby is ugly as fuck.

4.6.0 / 2026-01-28

• 6 minor enhancements:

  • Added “features/problems” to description_sections array.

  • Added L=<level> option to dcov task.

  • Added description_rdoc_hack=true to force rubygems.org to use rdoc formatting.

  • Multiple description sections include the header descriptions (excluding first).

  • Redid some of the parsing in intuit_values to be cleaner.

  • Stole halostatue’s extensions to Readme url parsing. Thanks!

• 3 bug fixes:

  • #missing path now raises instead of warns.

  • #parse_urls no longer raises on the old array format. Long dead.

  • Normalize GHA workflow with minitest and others.

4.5.1 / 2026-01-02

• 2 bug fixes:

  • Bump rdoc dependency to include 7.x.

  • Fix to load hoe plugins w/ camel-case.

4.5.0 / 2025-12-24

• 3 minor enhancements:

  • Added Hoe::Git plugin, forked from jbarnette/hoe-git + halostatue/hoe-git2

  • Bumped ruby version to 3.2+.

  • Clarified dependency on rake to ~> 13.0.

4.4.0 / 2025-12-22

• 1 minor enhancement:

  • Added rdoc_options accessor to expose it so you can add more.

• 1 bug fix:

  • Updated File.read_utf to assume String encoding support. (wtn)

4.3.0 / 2025-06-17

• 4 bug fixes:

  • Fix Gem index inflation. (halostatue)

  • Fix known_plugins task for Gem::SpecFetcher API changes. (segiddins)

  • Removed defunct deps:email task.

  • Update list of known plugins. (segiddins)

4.2.3 / 2025-03-25

• 2 minor enhancements:

  • Added alias required_rubygems_version to spec.

  • Added clean as a prepended prerequisite to task gem.

4.2.2 / 2024-06-29

• 1 bug fix:

  • Fix errors created when string literals are frozen.

4.2.1 / 2024-05-21

• 1 minor enhancement:

  • Raise error if readme file is improperly structured.

• 1 bug fix:

  • Fix NoMethodError: undefined method ‘verbose’. (adangel)

4.2.0 / 2024-01-12

• 2 minor enhancements:

  • Extended hoe/racc to be multitask! ruby_parser goes from 8.5s to 1.2s!

  • Extended hoe/racc to build .yy files to allow for multi-file generation.

• 1 bug fix:

  • Fixed missing dep declaration on oedipus_lex.

4.1.0 / 2023-11-16

• 1 minor enhancement:

  • Added Hoe::Cov#cov_filter accessor.

• 2 bug fixes:

  • Removed use of Gem.bin_wrapper. rdoc is now just rdoc.

  • Removed use of Gem.default_exec_format. gem is now just gem.

4.0.5 / 2023-07-25

• 1 bug fix:

  • sow: Fixed nested module directory creation. (chriscz)

4.0.4 / 2023-06-06

• 1 minor enhancement:

  • Bumped minimum ruby to 2.7. So done.

• 1 bug fix:

  • Fixed a readme parsing oddity for section headers w/ multiple words that collide.

4.0.3 / 2023-05-02

• 1 bug fix:

  • Ensure that license name is a string.

4.0.2 / 2023-01-21

• 1 minor enhancement:

  • Bump minimum ruby version to 2.6+. Can’t wait to drop 2.6.

• 1 bug fix:

  • Fix for rubygems method error. Version used to respect #=~, now needs to #to_s first.

4.0.1 / 2022-12-17

• 1 bug fix:

  • Add extra checks to release_sanity to ensure history file is updated before release.

4.0.0 / 2022-12-16

• 3 major enhancements:

  • Removed Minitest::TestTask. Shipped with minitest 5.16+ now!

  • Removed direct support for rspec, test/unit. Still extendable tho.

  • Removed support for old style readme parsing.

3.26.0 / 2022-10-20

• 2 minor enhancements:

  • Added warning to bundled minitest/test_task.

  • Removed dead rcov plugin and added (simple)cov plugin.

• 1 bug fix:

  • Fixed test task load path issue, prepend Hoe.include_dirs to ensure they come first.

3.25.0 / 2022-08-18

• 1 minor enhancement:

  • Added otp_command config option for OTP auth on gem push.

• 1 bug fix:

  • Use sh instead of system during gem install to raise on error.

3.24.0 / 2022-06-20

• 3 minor enhancements:

  • Add bindir and homepage accessor methods. (dsisnero)

  • Don’t auto-intuit values if they’re already set. (dsisnero)

  • Use bindir to determine executables. (dsisnero)

3.23.1 / 2022-01-04

• 1 bug fix:

  • Fixed loading config files for ruby 3.1’s now default YAML.safe_load_file.

3.23.0 / 2021-05-29

• 2 minor enhancements:

  • Bump racc (plugin) dependency.

  • Removed ruby18! and ruby19! methods. ugh

3.22.3 / 2021-01-10

• 1 bug fix:

  • Bumped ruby version to include < 4 (trunk).

3.22.2 / 2020-08-31

• 1 bug fix:

  • Bumped ruby version to include 3.0 (trunk).

3.22.1 / 2020-02-12

• 1 bug fix:

  • Avoid calling parse_urls if URL metadata are already set. (flavorjones)

2.22.0 / 2020-02-09

• 4 minor enhancements:

  • Added metadate mapping for ‘docs’.

  • Added rdoc extension to the history and readme file finder globs.

  • Extended readme parsing to more intelligently deal with markup sections.

  • Refactored intuit_values to take the file content as an arg.

• 2 bug fixes:

  • Fixed ordering of test_prelude vs framework in Minitest::TestTask. (flavorjones)

  • Fixed wiring of test_prelude into Minitest::TestTask.create. (flavorjones)

3.21.0 / 2020-01-11

• 2 minor enhancements:

  • Added support for wiki_uri and mailing_list_uri. (JuanitoFatas)

  • Load encrypted private key using ENV as passphrase. (larskanis)

• 5 bug fixes:

  • Add require_ruby_version for 2.1+. (MSP-Greg)

  • Fix a ruby 2.7 keyword arg deprecation. (anatol)

  • Fix debug_gem task when you have a signing_key and broken rubygems (< 3.1.0).

  • Fixed shadowed variable and json output for minitest’s test:isolated task.

  • Minor tweak to make hoe load when openssl isn’t available.

3.20.0 / 2019-11-09

• 2 minor enhancements:

  • Added <test>:isolated task that runs tests in parallel. Replaces <test>:dep task.

  • Bumped rake dependency to be < 15.

3.19.0 / 2019-10-29

• 4 minor enhancements:

  • Added deprecation to parse_urls for ancient url array form.

  • Added support for gemspec metadata. (viraptor)

  • Hoe#parse_urls now returns a hash no matter what

  • Removed looong deprecated Hoe#url/url= methods.

• 1 bug fix:

  • Fixed sow for ruby 2.6 deprecations in ERB. (felipec)

3.18.1 / 2019-09-14

• 1 minor enhancement:

  • Added deprecations to minitest/test_task: TESTOPTS, N (for #threads), FILTER.

• 3 bug fixes:

  • Fixed one use of Array.prepend on ruby 2.3-2.4.

  • Removed FILTER/N/X handling from hoe/test.rb in favor of minitest/test_task.rb.

  • Sort globs before shuffling to normalize different file systems.

3.18.0 / 2019-05-25

• 1 major enhancement:

  • Added Minitest::TestTask (will move to minitest proper soon)

• 8 minor enhancements:

  • Added ‘multiruby_skip’ config so it can be in global ~/.hoerc.

  • Added Hoe.include_dirs to allow tasks to probe directly.

  • Added X=exclude_pattern to the test plugin. Can be used in conjunction with N=select_pattern.

  • Deprecated Hoe::Test.make_test_cmd (argue with me!)

  • Deprecated Hoe::Test.try_loading_rspec (argue with me!)

  • Deprecated Hoe::Test.try_loading_rspec2 (argue with me!)

  • Deprecated testunit support (argue with me!)

  • Switched normally hoe-generated test tasks over to use Minitest::TestTask.

• 1 bug fix:

  • Fixed incompatibility with rubygems 3.x. (drbrain)

3.17.2 / 2019-03-13

• 1 bug fix:

  • Fixed gem sign breakage caused by rubygems update. Tested against rubygems 3.0.2

3.17.1 / 2018-09-06

• 1 bug fix:

  • Bumped dependencies on rdoc and rake for latest majors.

3.17.0 / 2018-03-17

• 2 minor enhancements:

  • Added task check_key to see if your signing cert is expired or not.

  • Bump rdoc dependency to range from 4.x to 5.x.

• 1 bug fix:

  • Fixed ridocs rake task.

3.16.2 / 2017-11-21

• 2 bug fixes:

  • Make missing history/readme situations more resilient and informative. (kemonomachi)

  • Make missing urls value just warn.

3.16.1 / 2017-07-17

• 2 bug fixes:

  • Better handling of rdoc finding failures.

  • Fixed bug making system calls w/ empty string in array? No clue.

3.16.0 / 2017-01-03

• 1 minor enhancement:

  • Updated compiler plugin dependency for rake-compiler to 1.x.

• 2 bug fixes:

  • Fixed rdoc cmd to be more resilient to ruby version changes (w/ isolate)

  • Relaxed rake dependency to < 13 to fix against latest release.

3.15.3 / 2016-11-17

• 1 bug fix:

  • Call Gem::Specification.reset after installing a gem. (segiddins)

3.15.2 / 2016-10-09

• 2 bug fixes:

  • Add noop clobber_docs and clobber_package tasks in case they are disabled.

  • Moved activate_plugin_deps to post_initialize.

3.15.1 / 2016-06-15

• 1 bug fix:

  • rake newb does a better job of activating gems it had to install. (duckinator)

3.15.0 / 2016-03-25

• 1 minor enhancement:

  • Added ruby version declarations for hoe-spec. ruby20!

• 2 bug fixes:

  • Fixed running rdoc if it was satisfied outside of GEM_HOME.

  • Relaxed requirement on rake to include new rake 11.x. (hsbt)

3.14.2 / 2015-09-14

• 1 minor enhancement:

  • Updated Hoe.pdf to reflect reality (removed all rubyforge references).

• 1 bug fix:

  • Fixed extension paths. Again. Damnit. I normally don’t release after midnight.

3.14.1 / 2015-09-13

• 1 bug fix:

  • sigh fixed bug setting up extensions data for spec.

3.14.0 / 2015-09-12

• 5 minor enhancements:

  • Added so_name variable to bin/sow for using hoe w/ c-extensions.

  • Default config now excludes tmp, .git, and .bundle.

  • Extended :compiler plugin to define #extension for hoe spec decls.

  • Failures to detect/load rake-compiler are handled gracefully.

  • Removed generation of synthesized .gemtest file. Dead.

• 1 bug fix:

  • Fix PRERELEASE= for packaging against newer versions of rubygems. (drbrain)

3.13.1 / 2015-02-03

• 1 bug fix:

  • Remove deprecated test_files from spec. (igas)

3.13.0 / 2014-09-26

• 2 minor enhancements:

  • Added ext_name to sow template expansion variables.

  • Added oedipus version to generation output

3.12.0 / 2014-04-23

• 3 minor enhancements:

  • Added :rdoc plugin.

  • Renamed History.txt to History.rdoc.

  • Renamed README.txt to README.rdoc.

3.11.0 / 2014-04-02

• 1 minor enhancement:

  • Added test:slow task so I don’t have to remember sort’s flags anymore. YAY for UNIX!

3.10.0 / 2014-03-14

• 1 major enhancement:

  • Removed all references to rubyforge, including the rubyforge plugin.

• 1 minor enhancement:

  • Updated template project (minitest usage, readme format, etc)

3.9.0 / 2014-02-10

• 1 minor enhancement:

  • Added irb task.

• 1 bug fix:

  • Properly constrain rubyforge dependency to avoid warnings. Prolly remove entirely soon. (halostatue)

3.8.1 / 2014-01-22

• 2 minor enhancements:

  • Added C=<#cpus> for minitest parallel testing support.

  • Added test_cmd task to make running tests in subcommands (eg profiling) easy.

• 1 bug fix:

  • Fixed bug when mixing TESTOPTS & N.

3.8.0 / 2014-01-15

• 2 minor enhancements:

  • Change racc plugin to support oedipus_lex, not rexical.

  • Switched .rb to .rex rule to oedipus_lex.

3.7.4 / 2014-01-06

• 1 bug fix:

  • Fix path in template/Rakefile.erb since we now have template styles. (mikestok)

3.7.3 / 2013-12-13

• 1 bug fix:

  • Quell warnings in sow on ruby 2.0. (teoljungberg)

3.7.2 / 2013-12-05

• 1 bug fix:

  • Apparently getting files in a different order on osx on ruby 2.1. (sanemat)

3.7.1 / 2013-08-19

• 1 minor enhancement:

  • Added N=testname option to the test task to shortcut TESTOPTS=‘-n testname’

3.7.0 / 2013-07-24

• 1 minor enhancement:

  • Warn and default to MIT license if not set.

3.6.3 / 2013-06-20

• 1 bug fix:

  • Fixed problems with shell redirection on non-bash systems. (kou)

3.6.2 / 2013-05-29

• 1 minor enhancement:

  • Um… the default test lib should probably be minitest, not testunit.

3.6.1 / 2013-05-10

• 2 bug fixes:

  • Define a blank test task just in case nothing is found

  • Fixed an ancient test to use capture_subprocess_io. More reliable.

3.6.0 / 2013-04-18

• 5 minor enhancements:

  • Added built-in support for markdown.

  • Renamed rubyforge_name to group_name.

  • Aliased and deprecated rubyforge_name from group_name.

  • Strip <> from parse_urls for markdown style raw urls.

  • intuit_values looks for README.md and History.md as well as txt.

• 1 bug fix:

  • Fix file_name regex for test file. (bhenderson/veganstraightedge)

3.5.3 / 2013-04-09

• 1 minor enhancement:

  • Updated publish plugin to depend on rdoc 4.x.

3.5.2 / 2013-03-18

• 1 bug fix:

  • 1.9: fixed warning of ambiguous args in bin/sow. (amesee)

3.5.1 / 2013-02-22

• 1 bug fix:

  • Fixed use of Gem::Specification.find_by_name for ruby 2.0. (haramako)

3.5.0 / 2013-01-22

• 1 minor enhancement:

  • Added optional cmd field in blog setup for hoe/publish

3.4.1 / 2013-01-16

• 1 bug fix:

  • Fixed MiniTest const for older stock ruby minitests. (illuminerdi)

3.4.0 / 2012-12-18

• 2 minor enhancements:

  • Splatted version arg on require_rubygems_version and require_ruby_version.

  • Switch default template test file to minitest

3.3.1 / 2012-11-23

• 1 minor enhancement:

  • Updated rake dep to be >= 0.8 and < 11.0 for the new wack version scheme. (MichaelXavier)

3.3.0 / 2012-11-12

• 3 minor enhancements:

  • Added Sow#make_sub_modules. (bhenderson)

  • Hoe.normalize_names now returns test class name separately. (bhenderson)

  • Sow now generates test and impl files with proper namespacing. (bhenderson)

3.2.0 / 2012-11-09

• 3 minor enhancements:

  • Added flog_method and defaulted it to max_method

  • Changed flog_threshold to 20, 2x the industry average. Be strong. You can do it.

  • Hoe#timebomb will now default finis/start values to 1/1 and 12/31 of the current year if not specified.

3.1.1 / 2012-11-03

• 1 bug fix:

  • Fixed ridocs command args. (bikeNomad)

3.1.0 / 2012-09-21

• 1 minor enhancement:

  • Added Hoe#licenses and Hoe#license for declaring your gem’s license. (flavorjones)

• 1 bug fix:

  • Rake 0.8.7 sets verbose flag to true, breaking 2 tests. (michelboaventura)

3.0.8 / 2012-08-20

• 1 bug fix:

  • Set test_globs default value to pick up test/spec files as well. (millisami)

3.0.7 / 2012-08-07

• 1 minor enhancement:

  • Added quote from DrNic about manifests to readme.

3.0.6 / 2012-05-15

• 1 minor enhancement:

  • Added install_plugins to the newb task

3.0.5 / 2012-05-07

• 1 bug fix:

  • Fixed ridocs argument handling (erikh)

3.0.4 / 2012-05-01

• 1 bug fix:

  • Removed rubygems/deprecated and rolled my own for users on older rubygems

3.0.3 / 2012-04-09

• 2 bug fixes:

  • Fixed racc plugin’s gem dependency activation

  • Fixed rake multi’s use of multiruby_skip.

3.0.2 / 2012-04-03

• 1 bug fix:

  • Generate urls list properly in #announcement if you use k/v form

3.0.1 / 2012-03-26

• 1 minor enhancement:

  • Uniqify hoe plugins in sow Rakefile template. (evanphx)

• 3 bug fixes:

  • Fixed have_gem? checks in the install_plugins task to match the install_gem calls.

  • Fixed homepage handling when bullet list used in readme. (evanphx)

  • Removed deprecated use of #url in publish plugin

3.0.0 / 2012-03-20

• 3 major enhancements:

  • Added activate_plugin_deps phase to plugin loading.

  • Removed long deprecated Hoe.new { block }.

  • Removed long deprecated handling of improper dependencies.

• 3 minor enhancements:

  • Added deprecation warnings to Hoe#url and Hoe#url=. Already deprecated for 9 mo.

  • Reworked all the plugins to use activate_XXX_deps, as necessary.

  • Switched internal usage of #url to #urls.

• 2 bug fixes:

  • Fixed failures in the publish_docs task when remote directory times cannot be changed (such as on rubyforge).

  • Fixed isolate setup for the racc plugin

2.16.1 / 2012-03-13

• 2 bug fixes:

  • Fixed missing dependency for .gemtest creation (larskanis)

  • Fixed the rdoc/rcov commands to use sh. Oops.

2.16.0 / 2012-03-06

• 9 minor enhancements:

  • Added Gem.bin_wrapper to provide API to bin wrapped files.

  • Added check_manifest task to compile_tasks in the compiler plugin.

  • Decoupled from rcov task. Solves isolate/hoe bootstrap issues.

  • Decoupled from rdoc tasks. Solves isolate/hoe bootstrap issues.

  • Updated default exclude config to skip extconf.h and .o files.

  • Updated known 3rd party plugin list in readme.

  • Warn against using system installed rake (eg osx ships their own on 1.8).

  • Removed rcov plugin from the default loaded set.

  • Added dev dependency for rcov when the plugin is loaded.

• 2 bug fixes:

  • Fix Rake::DSL include warnings.

  • Removing check_manifest from prerelease. (should be pushed to the hoe-git plugin)

2.15.0 / 2012-02-29

• 5 minor enhancements:

  • Added Hoe::bad_plugins which returns plugins that could not be found

  • Added post_blog_zenweb to post releases to my blog’s jekyll-like format

  • Added the install_plugins task

  • Documented the blogs .hoerc entry.

  • Revamped post_blog task to allow for local file based blogs.

2.14.0 / 2012-02-20

• 9 minor enhancements:

  • .rdoc files are now automatically added to the extra_rdoc_files list.

  • Added Hoe#read_manifest

  • Added check_manifest to the prerelease task to prevent broken releases.

  • Added extra duplicate dependency checking.

  • Hoe#with_config merges the local and home configuration atop Hoe::DEFAULT_CONFIG to allow plugins to supply new defaults.

  • The readme_file and history_file are now automatically guessed from the manifest. This allows “README.rdoc” to be used automatically.

  • install_gem optionally excludes rdoc/ri generation.

  • rake check_extra_deps excludes rdoc/ri generation. rake install_gem does not.

  • rake multi now just reinvokes rake using multiruby to allow hoe plugins to be invoked.

• 3 bug fixes:

  • Added workaround for check_extra_deps for multi-version dependencies.

  • The publish plugin no longer raises an exception for missing or ancient versions of rdoc.

  • rdoc plugin calls isolate if using isolate

2.13.1 / 2012-02-06

• 1 minor enhancement:

  • :doc task should depend on isolate if activated

2.13.0 / 2012-01-23

• 3 minor enhancements:

  • Added :dcov task so you can easily check documentation coverage.

  • Added Rake monkeypatch so that Task#clear will clear comments. (github)

  • Added coverage sorting and added tmp/isolate to rcov flags

• 2 bug fixes:

  • Quelled 1.9.3 warning. (erikh)

  • rcov plugin should invoke isolate task if isolate plugin is being used.

2.12.5 / 2011-12-19

• 3 minor enhancements:

  • Make hoe noisy about missing plugins again.

  • Normalize dev/runtime deps: dev + runtime = runtime.

  • Add support for per-project .hoerc overrides. (ged)

2.12.4 / 2011-11-28

• 3 bug fixes:

  • Fixed Hoe.read_utf to work on both 1.8 and 1.9. Unicode files FTW! (tenderlove)

  • Moved the rdoc dependency to the publish plugin from hoe-seattlerb.

  • Only load rdoc once to fix test loading bugs.

2.12.3 / 2011-09-06

• 1 bug fix:

  • Hoe was loading rdoc early… delay and isolate will be happier

2.12.2 / 2011-08-24

• 2 minor enhancements:

  • Added recursive chmod to docs task to ensure group write-ability (kleb)

  • Improve error message when no manifest found. (Apparently some linux packagers remove manifest files)

• 3 bug fixes:

  • Added missing minitest/autorun require (NOT reported by fedoraproject.org)

  • Fix for RSpec support broken in 0dc6b2f (ged)

  • Fix for the edgiest of edge cases (-Ku in ruby19… ummm, yeah)

2.12.1 / 2011-08-22

• 2 bug fixes:

  • Fixed a test that fails on non-privileged (rvm/multiruby) setups

  • RbConfig is used instead of Config to remove a 1.9.3 warning.

2.12.0 / 2011-08-15

• 2 minor enhancements:

  • Forcibly copy file specified in –main to index.html. (ewong)

  • need_tar now defaults to false.

• 4 bug fixes:

  • Don’t attempt to require RSpec 1 in an RSpec 2 environment. (monde)

  • Fixed test/packaging issue when wrapping hoespec in namespace. (damphyr)

  • Fixed tests for jruby. (sferik)

  • Hoe.load_plugins removes bad entries so plugin? returns false for unloaded plugins.

2.11.0 / 2011-08-08

• 2 minor enhancements:

  • Bypass sudo on install_gem if GEM_HOME is writable (ala rvm).

  • rcov plugin should set libs to lib, test, and ‘.’. (tenderlove)

• 1 bug fix:

  • Fixed windoze detection on jruby. sigh (myabc)

2.10.0 / 2011-06-30

• 3 minor enhancements:

  • Added parse_urls to deal with array and hash style url lists in README.txt.

  • Added urls accessor.

  • Deprecated url accessors.

• 1 bug fix:

  • Specified wrong version of racc in racc plugin.

2.9.6 / 2011-06-22

• 3 bug fixes:

  • Fixed hoe dep to be a spermy (~>) dep

  • Hard coded rake dependency as ~> 0.8 so we don’t collide with other libs

  • Removed circular dependency check. Hasn’t been needed in a long while.

2.9.5 / 2011-06-21

• 2 minor enhancements:

  • Extended #dependency to work post-spec creation in case a task wants to add a dep.

• 4 bug fixes:

  • Fixed dependency for :inline plugin.

  • Fixed minor 1.9.3 warnings.

  • Fixed sow to obey gem naming conventions. It no longer munges - to _.

  • Switched hoe deps from >= to ~>.

2.9.4 / 2011-04-01

• 1 minor enhancement:

  • check_manifest now fails when there is a diff. AKA, drbrain was lazy and it is somehow my fault. If anything, it is jbarnette’s fault for not building any brains into hoe-git the way that my hoe-perforce plugin works. I mean, c’mon… how hard is it to validate the manifest before you release? I do it all the time and twice on sundays. BAH! Damn kids! Get off my lawn!

2.9.3 / 2011-04-01

• 1 minor enhancement:

  • Cleanup for rubygems 1.7 deprecations

2.9.2 / 2011-03-31

• 7 minor enhancements:

  • Added :none as a testlib option to let you do whatever you want. (phiggins)

  • Added Hoe#dependency(name, version, type = :runtime) for cleaner hoe specs.

  • Added NOSUDO option to ‘rake gem_install`. (nihildeb)

  • Include Rake::DSL to support future versions of rake

  • Multiruby now skips mri_trunk if multiruby_skip includes 1.9

  • Test#make_test_cmd now sorts test files (mostly for testing)

  • Try using psych before syck.

• 3 bug fixes:

  • Clean generated extension library too

  • Fixed a bug with sow -d or -t

  • Fixed plugin activation via ~/.hoerc. (ged)

2.9.1 / 2011-02-05

• 1 minor enhancement:

  • Sow now creates all template directories before dealing with anything else

• 3 bug fixes:

  • Fixed dependency order bug with prereleases [erikh]

  • Fixed sanity check for prereleases.

  • Fixed sow when passed no args. [erikh]

2.9.0 / 2011-01-31

• 11 minor enhancements:

  • Added Hoe::Package#pkg_path to make package hook writing easier.

  • Added Hoe::Test#test_prelude to allow for code to run before test loading.

  • Added plugin?(name) to allow for easier plugin guarding in hoe spec.

  • Added support for multiple template dirs for sow.

  • Added support for rubygems-test. See www.gem-testers.org/

  • Clean up sow a LOT using: include FileUtils::Verbose

  • Don’t warn about missing plugins without rake -t

  • Hoe requires Gem::PackageTask from RubyGems 1.4+

  • Moved post_news from publish to rubyforge

  • Plugins can now be loaded from a plugins array in ~/.hoerc

  • rubyforge plugin now uses plain globs to push. Fixes releases for rubygems itself

• 4 bug fixes:

  • Failed plugins should notify on both trace and debug.

  • Fixed rdoc_dir for custom rdoc locations

  • Fixed require ‘rubyforge’ that was too late

  • Fixed sow to properly rename dirs depth first

2.8.0 / 2010-12-08

• 6 minor enhancements:

  • Added PRE=a.1 variable to package and release tasks. (ged)

  • Added compiler plugin to support rake-compiler. (tenderlove)

  • Added known_plugins task and updated included and 3rd party plugins doco

  • Added racc/rex plugin!

  • Extended sow’s Rakefile template to dynamically include installed plugins

  • Turned off rubyforge plugin by default. (tenderlove’s whining)

2.7.0 / 2010-11-15

• 2 minor enhancements:

  • Added new plugin: gem_prelude_sucks. (jbarnette)

    • Activate under 1.9 if you don’t want it messing with you.

  • Added rspec2 support (bleything)

• 1 bug fix:

  • require uri in hoe/deps (raggi)

2.6.2 / 2010-08-31

• 1 minor enhancement:

  • Updated inline dependency when using inline plugin

• 1 bug fix:

  • Fixed timebomb to bottom out properly on the end value

2.6.1 / 2010-06-02

• 2 bug fixes:

  • Fix up hoe to be happy when rubyforge is missing or misconfigured

  • Fixed dep tasks to deal with broken rubygems changes RF#27847 (mjwillson)

2.6.0 / 2010-03-27

• 6 minor enhancements:

  • Added ‘.’ to load path for (bad) 1.9.2 changes

  • Added rdoc_locations array to the publish plugin to allow for multiple arbitrary rdoc locations

    • Refactored old rubyforge rdoc location to the rubyforge plugin.

  • Added require_ruby_version and require_rubygems_version.

  • Cleaned up dep tests

  • Hoe now depends on rubygems 1.3.6 instead of the gemcutter gem.

  • Remove ext from default_ruby_flags and require_paths. (luis)

• 2 bug fixes:

  • Fixed test command to use ‘–’ before filter args

  • Tweaked .hoerc error to point to a fix.

2.5.0 / 2010-01-06

• 8 minor enhancements:

  • Add extra dirs to rcov include path if needed.

  • Added Hoe#dependency_target to make dependencies easier to declare.

  • Added extra doco to describe how auto-population works.

  • Added more doco to readme.

  • Don’t bother posting news to rubyforge.

  • Hoe::Inline plugin now deals with X::Y by flattening the name.

  • Merged some of Hoe.pdf to README.txt and further improved doco.

  • Pushed gemcutter & rubyforge dependencies down to the plugins.

• 2 bug fixes:

  • Fix perms on Hoe.pdf after copying.

  • Fixed Hoe rdoc problem caused by gemcutter plugin.

2.4.0 / 2009-12-08

• 6 minor enhancements:

  • Added Hoe.pdf

  • Added gemcutter plugin (raggi)

  • Added newb plugin. (jbarnette)

  • Improved README.txt

  • Improved rdoc

  • Refactored rubyforge task to plugin. (jbarnette)

2.3.3 / 2009-08-07

• 6 minor enhancements:

  • #plugin now uniq’s contents. (asarih)

  • Added extra warnings if manifest is borked.

  • Added link to full doco.

  • Deprecated plain string dependencies, auto-fill with ‘>= 0’.

  • Improved doco with some code examples.

  • Moved version check from package task to prerelease task.

2.3.2 / 2009-06-30

• 1 minor enhancement:

  • splat all gems on release. (luis lavena)

• 3 bug fixes:

  • Fix File.read_utf on ruby 1.9 for UTF-8 files

  • Force read_utf to open file ascii-8bit. UGH. ruby 1.9 encoding is a PITA.

  • Version regex needs to allow multiple spaces for OCD coders.

2.3.1 / 2009-06-24

• 2 minor enhancements:

  • Removed email.txt from clean_globs, added TAGS.

  • Use Gem::PackageTask if available, since Rake’s package task will go away

• 2 bug fixes:

  • Added require time where used

  • JB nitpicks too much. fixed templates.

2.3.0 / 2009-06-23

• 1 major enhancement:

  • Plugins can no longer be self-activating.

• 8 minor enhancements:

  • All hoe plugins are pre-activated.

  • Allow RDoc title to be set via spec_extras.

  • Cleaned up plugin activation.

  • History intuition extended for markdown. drnic/jbarnette

  • Move RDoc task requires to hoe/publish.rb.

  • Only activated plugins are loaded, extended, and activated.

  • Plugin loading deferred until hoe-spec creation, allowing proper meta-plugins.

  • inline plugin adds RubyInline dependency and hooks clean task.

• 2 bug fixes:

  • Fixed developer load order error in load_plugins.

  • rcov should use test_globs. apatterson

2.2.0 / 2009-06-17

• 8 minor enhancements:

  • Alter task descriptions to say what plugin they come from. jbarnette

  • Fix and improve generate_key task. Patch #20441 by Matthew Kent.

  • Hoe.plugin can take multiple names. jbarnette

  • Increase configurability of RDoc tasks. Patch #19597 by Sylvain Joyeux.

  • Refactored and renamed email task to debug_email, removed from announce.

  • Removed email task from announce task.

  • Switched to seattlerb plugin

  • check_extra_deps now installs developer dependencies as well

• 3 bug fixes:

  • Fixed blogs entry in DEFAULT_CONFIG.

  • activated but missing plugins are properly skipped now

  • exclude field was missing from DEFAULT_CONFIG

2.1.0 / 2009-06-14

• 6 minor enhancements:

  • Added File::read_utf to strip out UTF BOM marker. Fixes nokogiri. (tenderlove)

  • Now using the minitest plugin.

  • Refactored :release task to facilitate other plugins.

  • Version intuiting now only bombs on packaging, allowing check_manifest.

  • release now has prerelease, postrelease deps.

• 1 bug fix:

  • Fixed version intuiting to allow for beta versions (eg, 1.2.3.beta.4)

2.0.0 / 2009-06-02

• 3 major enhancements:

  • Added a plugin system and extracted nearly everything into separate plugins.

  • Added Clean, Debug, Deps, Flay, Flog, Inline, Package, Publish, Rake, Rcov, Signing, and Test plugins

• 9 minor enhancements:

  • Added Hoe::spec replacing old Hoe.new spec form. Now with DSL flavors!

  • Added DEFAULT_CONFIG so plugins can add to it.

  • Added pluggable! to declare your package depends on rubygems 1.3.1+.

  • Changes are now included in the gem’s description.

  • Deprecated Hoe.new spec form.

  • Filled in all the blanks on rdoc.

  • Refactored nearly all the spec logic down to much smaller/cleaner pieces.

  • Updated templates to use new form. No clue how best to update yours. :P

  • Version number is now auto-searchable by grepping in all the files.

1.12.2 / 2009-04-16

• 1 minor enhancement:

  • Removed rcov_info.

• 2 bug fixes:

  • clean globs should have coverage* glob.

  • rcov task should create coverage.info file for tools.

1.12.1 / 2009-03-31

• 1 bug fix:

  • Added Rake.all_tasks because rake architecture sucks.

    • YAY! Go view technonancy.us/ !!

1.12.0 / 2009-03-31

• 6 minor enhancements:

  • Added Rake.undo.

  • Added from vlad: Rake.application.all_tasks and Rake.clear_tasks.

  • Added log files to default excludes. (technonancy)

  • Refactored gem install code and extended to work with jruby

  • Refactored run_tests into make_test_cmd, enabling use in tasks. (jbarnette)

  • Use RDoc::Task instead of Rake::RDocTask, if available.

• 1 bug fix:

  • Fixed incorrect usage. (jmhodges)

1.11.0 / 2009-03-16

• 2 minor enhancements:

  • Added timebomb method. Set flay/flog thresholds to degrade over time.

  • Switched to flog’s new FlogTask, added flog_threshold.

1.10.0 / 2009-03-09

• 2 minor enhancements:

  • Switched to flay’s new FlayTask, added flay_threshold.

  • generate_key now creates the certificate package automatically.

• 1 bug fix:

  • Fixed generate_key if more than one developer on the project.

1.9.0 / 2009-02-26:

• 7 minor enhancements:

  • Added flog, flay, and rdoc tasks.

  • Added ~/.hoe_template and basic erb templating to sow.

  • install_gem automatically installs missing dependencies. From Dr. Nic.

  • Parameterized history and readme paths for github users (sigh).

  • Added rspec support including having both tests and specs.

  • Match RubyGems’ RDoc behavior and removed rdoc_pattern attribute. Use extra_rdoc_files instead.

  • Added testlib and SUPPORTED_TEST_FRAMEWORKS to switch your testing library.

• 1 bug fix:

  • Fixed rdoc title command-line parameters.

1.8.3 / 2009-01-20:

• 1 minor enhancement:

  • Refactored sow’s naming code to Hoe.normalize_names and wrote some tests to flush out inconsistencies.

1.8.2 / 2008-10-24:

• 1 minor enhancement:

  • Now asks Inline for known inlined classes if you package w/ INLINE=1.

1.8.1 / 2008-10-22

• 1 bug fix:

  • Fixes for windows compatibility from Luis Lavena.

1.8.0 / 2008-10-09

• 5 minor enhancements:

  • Added Hoe.add_include_dirs to make setting up rake deps easier.

  • Removed unused optional group arg in sow.

  • Added testlib variable so you can specify what test library to use.

  • Added deps:list to help you review dependent projects.

  • Added deps:email to help you communicate with dependent projects.

  • Added deps:fetch to help you search through dependent projects.

1.7.0 / 2008-06-30

• 3 minor enhancements:

  • Use rdoc 2.x gem if available. Eric likes his backslashes.

  • Added extra_dev_deps for new rubygems developer dependencies.

    • Switched hoe to dev dep. Fork off, bitches.

  • Finally got a sane test that does something. Hey… it’s a start.

1.6.0 / 2008-06-18

• 1 minor enhancement

  • blog categories! Defaults to array with project’s name. Thanks Aaron!

1.5.3 / 2008-05-20

• 1 bug fix

  • hoe really really needs better tests. I suck. :/

1.5.2 / 2008-05-20

• 4 minor enhancements:

  • Added multiruby_skip attribute for ‘rake multi’ version invalidation.

  • Improved error messages when files are missing.

  • Added rubygems post_install_message accessor. Thanks to Dr. Nic.

  • Cleaned up alternative_name… I didn’t get it.

• 1 bug fix:

  • Removed require of rake/contrib/sshpublisher to fix 1.9.

1.5.1 / 2008-03-04

• 2 minor enhancements:

  • Removed install/uninstall tasks. Too buggy. Gems do a better job.

  • Added cleaning of rbc files to default list

• 5 bug fixes:

  • Correctly deal with errors intuiting history and readme files. Thanks Aaron!

  • Fixed rdoc title. Thanks, Sander!

  • Fixed sow to match new Rakefile and History format. Thanks, me!

  • Moved test/unit to the front for rake test. Fixes use of miniunit.

  • Renamed shadowed variable.

1.5.0 / 2008-01-30

• 9 minor enhancements:

  • Added autopopulation of changes from History.txt.

  • Added autopopulation of urls from History.txt.

  • Added autopopulation of description from History.txt

  • Added autopopulation of summary from description.

  • Added description_sections to declare what sections of readme to use.

  • Added summary_sentences to declare how many sentences you want in summary.

  • Added developer(name, email) to cleanly populate both author/email arrays.

  • author and email now default to “doofus”.

  • author and email warn that they’ll blow up on 2008-04-01.

1.4.0 / 2007-12-20

• 1 major enhancement:

  • rake package now supports INLINE=1 and FORCE_PLATFORM=whatever.

    • Supports ruby_inline extensions.

    • Contributed by Luis Lavena. Thanks Luis!

1.3.0 / 2007-08-13

• 1 major enhancement:

  • Hoe now builds signed gems automatically. Run the generate_key task to automatically create a signing key.

• 4 minor enhancements:

  • Extended rdoc pattern to include ext dirs.

  • Fixed dependency adding for versionless dependencies.

  • Added NODOT env var to disable RDoc diagram generation.

  • The config_hoe task automatically merges in new config entries.

1.2.2 / 2007-07-23

• 2 minor enhancements:

  • Added exclude parameter for check_manifest filtering to .hoerc.

  • Documented .hoerc stuffs.

• 1 bug fix:

  • Various (untested) fixes for windows compatibility.

1.2.1 / 2007-05-21

• 8 minor enhancements:

  • Allow for spaces in filenames in manifest. Thanks to Aaron Patterson.

  • Allow rsync flags to be set.

  • Allow rdoc destination directory to be set.

  • Deal with bad line-endings. Stupid windoze users… :(

  • Added WINDOZE check for diff.exe and look for gdiff first.

  • Use gdiff if available, diff otherwise. Allows to work on borked Solaris.

  • Move RDoc to attr* from big ‘ol chunk at the top of the class.

  • Basic conversion of history/urls from rdoc to markdown.

• 1 bug fix:

  • Fixed executables regexp to /^bin/.

1.2.0 / 2007-02-13

• 4 minor enhancements:

  • Added more support for ext dirs.

  • Added a simple config file (yaml). Use ‘rake config_hoe’ to edit.

  • Added post_blog task (thanks Aaron!), configured via config_hoe.

  • Announce task now posts to your blogs and/or publishes API depending on config.

1.1.7 / 2007-01-10

• 5 minor enhancements:

  • extra_deps is now self-healing, and ensures no (direct) cycles.

  • cleans check_manifest for CVS projects.

  • rubyforge changes for config.

  • Now uses rsync for publish_docs. YAY for fast!

  • Bug #7193 fix spelling of ‘synopsys’. Submitted by Jacob Atzen.

1.1.6 / 2006-11-29

• 1 bug fix:

  • Fix release to work correctly with need_zip and need_tar.

1.1.5 / 2006-11-29

• 2 minor enhancements:

  • Reduced check_manifest dependencies to just diff for windows.

  • Don’t use default author in summary, description or changes.

1.1.4 / 2006-11-12

• 3 minor enhancements:

  • Added need_tar and need_zip to customize package requirements. Stupid windoze.

  • Extended spec_extras to take procs as values. Passes in named parameter.

  • Removed test from require_paths. I thought I already parameterized this. :/

1.1.3 / 2006-11-09

• 6 minor enhancements:

  • Added test_deps, now you can automatically discover test dependency ommisions.

  • Added ext support! Build C extensions with hoe!

  • Gemspec uses test_all.rb or result of test_globs. Tweak those tests.

  • Now uses https to login to rubyforge. Rubyforge crackers beware!

  • Fixed doco and automated updating of it.

  • Added rdoc_pattern. Go doco go!

1.1.2 / 2006-10-22

• 4 minor enhancements:

  • Added -d and -t flags to sow to make dev or trunk subdirs for p4 and svn projects.

  • Added install_gem to further test gem builds.

  • Added test_globs to customize your test file list.

  • Removed demo.rb from clean_globs. I’m torn on this one.

• 1 bug fix:

  • Fixed bug in install rule.

1.1.1 / 2006-10-11

• 2 bug fixes:

  • Fixed minor problem with subject of email.

  • Fixed problem in test.

1.1.0 / 2006-10-04

• 1 major enhancement:

  • Added sow, a command-line tool for quickly creating new projects.

• 1 minor enhancement:

  • Added check_manifest task

1.0.5 / 2006-10-03

• 8 minor enhancements:

  • Doco cleanup.

  • Removed Manifest.txt from rdoc and added title.

  • Added changeset support.

  • Added spec_extras for easy gemspec attribute setting.

  • Added release_notes, changeset setting for releases.

  • Added paragraphs_of utility method.

  • Added email and rubyforge news announcement tasks.

  • Url attribute may now be an array of urls.

1.0.4 / 2006-09-23

• 1 bug fix:

  • Damnit… I messed up. There is no rubygems gem to be dependent upon. Duh.

1.0.3 / 2006-09-23

• 9 minor enhancements:

  • Added debug_gem rule.

  • Added lots of doco.

  • Added proper deps to hoe for other’s gems, and rake/rubyforge/rubygems for hoe.

  • Added ridocs to generate ri locally for testing.

  • Added support for multiple authors.

  • Rdoc now includes any top level .txt files.

  • Renamed deploy to release.

  • Renamed upload to publish_docs.

  • publish_docs is now smart about subprojects and missing subdirectories.

• 1 bug fix:

  • Fixed include paths.

1.0.2 / 2006-09-20

• 2 minor enhancements:

  • Wee little tests.

  • Fixed up gemspec’s require_paths.

1.0.1 / 2006-09-20

• 5 minor enhancements:

  • Finally got deployment straightened out. Maybe. Some might be on rubyforge.org.

  • Added default description and summary.

  • Added dependency mechanism.

  • Improved gemspec debugging.

  • Swapped gem with tgz in deploy… we’d rather screw up on tgz

1.0.0 / 2006-09-19

• 1 major enhancement:

  • Birthday!