[ruby-talk:444771] [ANN] hoe 4.6.0 Released

hoe version 4.6.0 has been released!

• home: <hoe | software projects | by ryan davis;
• code: https://github.com/seattlerb/hoe;
• bugs: https://github.com/seattlerb/hoe/issues;
• doco: https://docs.seattlerb.org/hoe/;
• clog: https://github.com/seattlerb/hoe/blob/master/History.rdoc;

Hoe is a rake/rubygems helper for project Rakefiles. It helps you manage, maintain, and release your project 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, deployment, and announcement.

See class rdoc for help. Hint: ri Hoe or any of the plugins listed below.

For extra goodness, see: https://docs.seattlerb.org/hoe/Hoe.pdf

Features/Problems:

• Includes a dynamic plug-in system allowing for easy extensibility.
• Auto-intuits changes, description, summary, and version.
• Uses a manifest for safe and secure deployment.
• Provides 'sow' for quick project directory creation.
• Sow uses a simple ERB templating system allowing you to capture your   project patterns.

Changes:

4.6.0 / 2026-01-28

• 6 minor enhancements:

  * Added "features/problems" to description_sections array.   * Added L= 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.

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