1.5.3 2010-03-04

• Do not load activesupport 3.0, only 2.3

• In generated projects:

  • Added step: I should see “…”

  • Defined @lib_path in env.rb

1.5.2 2009-08-03

• allow any recent redcloth version for ruby 1.9 support

1.5.1 2009-07-01

• Fixed “newgem –help” to not show backtrace summary

1.5.0 2009-06-15

• support for hoe 2.0+ DSL

• ‘Given a safe place’ is now in a common Before block; so no longer explicitly required

• executable: generated executable includes: require ‘rubygems’

• removed hoe-patched.rb since hoe 2.0+ is much more configurable

1.4.1 2009-05-02

• missing file from manifest.. I hate manifests.

1.4.0 2009-05-02

• install_shoulda - use “newgem -T shoulda” to use shoulda for testing instead of test_unit or rspec

• common_steps.rb - When steps all started with ‘I …’

• common.rb - using module instead of creating methods against global namespace; no more kittens killed [thx Ben Mabey]

• all +require ‘rubygems’+ are conditional unless ENV [thx David Chelimsky + Ryan Tomayko]

• module_name supports hyphens throughout all generators (they are treated as underscores for camelize method)

• common_steps.rb - using “(.*)” for placeholders which is now cucumber defacto standard

1.3.0 2009-03-17

• install_cucumber: using layout like Rails’ cucumber generator: features/support/env.rb + features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb

1.2.3 2008-12-29

• ‘rake features’ uses –format progress now

• bump rubigen to 1.5.1

• move website to gh-pages branch, and official homepage to drnic.github.com/newgem

1.2.2 2008-12-27

• Added USAGE file to install_cucumber generator so it shows up in lists of available generators

• Some improvements to common.rb

1.2.1 2008-12-15

• Fixed ‘uninitialized constant NewgemGenerator::Newgem’ bug [#14]

• Fixed some cucumber steps after rubigen refactoring

1.2.0 2008-12-11

• Newgem + RubiGen are Ruby 1.9.1 compliant.

1.1.0 2008-11-11

• Support for ~/.newgem.yml file for default CLI arguments

  • Example content: `default: -T rspec -i cucumber`

• executable and extconf generators will create specs or tests depending on what you are using in your RubyGems

• executable generator: test/spec files give more useful starting point with a StringIO passed into CLI.execute(stdout, args)

• ‘rake manifest’ instead of ‘rake manifest:refresh’ [was actually released in 1.0.7]

1.0.7 2008-11-08

• Removed ‘rake local_deploy’ and changed website to reference ‘rake install_gem’ for same purpose [fixed #9]

• Fixed –version option (+ added cucumber scenario) [fixed #8]

• Cleaned up the common.rb steps

1.0.6 2008-11-05

• Removed cucumber references in newgem’s Rakefile, hopefully fixing #7

1.0.5 2008-11-01

• Oops, fixed cucumber dependency from 1.1.8 to 0.1.8

1.0.4 2008-11-01

• Hard-coded cucumber >= 0.1.8 dependency to avoid accidently requiring unreleased versions that are only in development

• local tasks/*.rake are loaded in generated gems

• install_cucumber: adds a development.feature to check that gem building can succeed

• cleaned up some require statements to explicitly load code from local src not an installed gem

• rake default => [:test, :features] - for continuous integration via runcoderun.com

1.0.3 2008-10-31

• GitHub RubyGem support. `rake gemspec` generates a clean `my_project.gemspec` file that will work with GitHub

• update plain theme to a peppermint green colour; updated newgem’s own website to same theme

1.0.2 2008-10-30

• Lighthouse Project created for tickets/suggestions: drnic.lighthouseapp.com/projects/18881-newgem

• newgem no longer generates a website by default; use -w to create one; or -i website; or script/generate install_website

• dev dependency on latest cucumber gem

• no requirement for cucumber gem to be installed [fixes #1]

• hoe is patched and cached within newgem so that README.* is supported [fixes #5]

• rake-automated patching of hoe.rb from patches/hoe/*.patch

1.0.1 2008-10-28

• Fix up readme + post-install notices based on 1.0.0 changes [thx Tomasz Muras]

• Remove old rails cucumber generator cruft from env.rb

• Clean up some feature/steps

1.0.0 2008-10-21

• Yay for 1.0.0 of New Gem Generator!

• massive overhaul of Hoe definition and rake tasks

  • config/hoe.rb is gone, a more condensed version is back in Rakefile

  • config/dependencies.rb is gone, this functionality is now supported by RubyGems 1.2’s dev dependency mechanism

  • generated gems no longer have generated tasks; rather they reuse those in newgem itself

  • to override a task, use the help method remove_task

  • Hoe declaration is more concise and reuses the available defaults by Hoe

  • No more wacky CONSTANTS in hoe declaration; reusing $hoe to access these values

  • no more version.rb; the VERSION constant is in lib/gemname.rb

• install_website: uses a config/website.yml for username/host/remote_dir (defaults to rubyforge)

• Removed install_rspec_stories which was superseded by install_cucumber

0.29.0 2008-10-18

• execute generator uses a lib/appname/cli.rb file

• basic feature descriptions for newgem and executable generators

0.28.0 2008-10-17

• Cucumber support: install_cucumber generator, and features generator for cucumber scope

0.27.0 2008-09-20

• Remove License.txt as its contents are in README (newgem + generator)

• RedCloth dependency - changed to new 4.0.0 version which is apparently new a shiny + fast

• Load RubyForge autoconfig correctly

• Integrate twitter search for ‘newgem’ on website

0.26.0 2008-06-21 NEVER RELEASED

• README.rdoc is the name of generated and internal README root files, since github makes them look pretty

• RedCloth dependency - changed to =3.0.3 as 3.0.4 is dodgy apparently [Roger Pack]

0.25.0 2008-06-19

• newgem: added –project option to allow a different Rubyforge [Yossef Mendelssohn]

• newgem: README contains generated year + name for license section [Yossef Mendelssohn]

• updated copyright in license

0.24.0 2008-06-17

• Refactored generated tests into install_test_unit, so rspec users don’t get test folder

• Cleaned up –simple and added task for generating gemspec file (for github) [Yehuda Katz]

0.23.2 2008-05-06

• removed :nodoc: from version.rb’s module [Steven Parkes]

• upgraded rubigen dependency to 1.3.0

0.23.1 2008-04-17

• Added explicit instruction to edit ~/.rubyforge/user-config.yml in PostInstall.txt

0.23.0 2008-04-17

• generated website/index.txt has customised rubyforge/github/gitorious information for git

• installing newgem now displays a post-install message (from PostInstall.txt)

• uses github_username value from .rubyforge/user-config.yml

• moved EXTRA_DEPENDENCIES to top of config/hoe.rb

• websites/*.txt are processed as ERB templates

0.22.2 2008-04-07

• Cleaned up the REV cmd [Sascha Teske]

• Replaced hardcoded rspec values done in a hurry at RubyFools with parameterised values [Alsak Hellesoy]

0.22.1 2008-04-05

• moved the ‘by Daniel Cadenas’ reference to the correct template.rhtml

• renamed template.rhtml -> template.html.erb in gem + generators

• fixed broken install_rspec_stories test

0.22.0 2008-04-03

• script/console - irb/console for your gem under development [Orion]

0.21.0 2008-04-03

• New Generator: install_rspec_stories for rubygems

• module.rb - more advanced $:.unshift sequence/cmd

0.20.1 2008-03-30

• extconf generator

  • creates test/test_#{name}_extn.rb test file

  • creates .autotest file for *.c -> test/test_*_extn.rb

  • failed compilation destroyes *.o/so/bundle/dll files so tests fail too

  • USAGE has docco on files to ignore in SCM + hoe

• requirements.rb no longer loads main lib file; no idea why it did it before

0.20.0 2008-03-30

• extconf generator - for C-extensions

• Hoe instance stored in $hoe so can be accessed from tasks/*.rake

0.19.1 2008-03-27

• rspec “rake spec” supports spec/**/*_spec.rb search now [Steven Parkes]

0.19.0 2008-03-25

• Added newgem_theme long_box_theme [Daniel Cadenas]

0.18.0 2008-03-14

• Upgraded generated/local README.txt for latest hoe

0.17.1 2008-02-20

• remove options from ‘env ruby’ in newgem bin

0.17.0 2008-02-03

• Updated generated config/hoe.rb for latest hoe 1.5 requirements

• Added #!/usr/bin/env ruby line to bin/newgem

• Fixed docco for -T option (was ‘-t’ in docco) [uploaded on 2008-1-3]

0.16.1 2007-11-13

• Oops, removed .git* from the hoe clean list as that blows away the .git folder…

0.16.0 2006-11-11

• Added a newgem_simple_generator to support the creation of a skinny gem skeleton [thx wycats]

• Added ‘.git*’ to default list of ignored files by hoe

• Cleaned the history join string to make proper n instead of \n

• Checked in empty_log as empty.log was being ignored by svn

0.15.0 2007-11-05

• Promoted ‘application_generator’ and ‘component_generator’ to Rubigen

from NewGem project (they are available even if newgem not installed)

0.14.2 2007-11-03

• Application generator inserts scopes passed in at cmd line, not app name

• Generated gems have default testing scope: test_unit

0.14.1 2007-10-18

• Added manifest:refresh rake task to recreate Manifest.txt with all files

• Corrected the generated readme for application generators

0.14.0 2007-10-14

• application_generator includes the install_rubigen_scripts generator

• if website included, no “overwrite tasks/website.rake” questions

• Update to docco for rubigen-based output [thx Noah Gibbs]

• Fixed website dir location if gem name + project name differ [thx Noah Gibbs]

0.13.5 2007-09-07

• rake tasks use rubyforge_username instead of RUBYFORGE_USERNAME constant

0.13.4 2007-09-07

• Running “newgem .” in a trunk, branches, or tags folder will look in parent folder for gem_name

• Added missing win_script.cmd for install_website generator [thx sutch]

• Upgrade rubigen === 1.0.4

0.13.3 2007-09-02

• Clean up newgem_gen usage statement

• website generated by default, -W to turn off, -w is no longer an option

0.13.2 2007-08-22

• Upgrade rubigen dependency to 1.0.3 to pushout upgrade

0.13.1 2007-08-22

• Re-release as there seemed to be an incorrect Rakefile in 0.13.0

• Added :newgem as a source for destroy script

• application_generator

  • test.rb passes APP_ROOT as parameter instead of a name, as APP_ROOT is already …/myproject

  • add BASE_DIRs for a clean list of required folders

• plain_theme_generator

  • Renamed from plain_generator

0.13.0 2007-08-20

• HIGHLIGHT - RubiGen integration - using a Rails-like generator

  • Now, each RubyGem has script/generate to access Rails-like generators too!!!

  • newgem can be run ontop of existing RubyGems and all is not destroyed!

  • Various included generators (application_generator, component_generator)

  • Website creation is now a generator, and is optionally included via newgem -w

  • Rspec support is now a generator, and is optionally included via newgem -t rspec

  • JRuby support is now a generator, and is optionally included via newgem -j

  • The Rakefile is now <5 lines - all config is in config/hoe.rb

• Generated gems:

  • Started to add jruby specific features (-j option)

    • Gems named xxx-1.2.3-jruby.gem

    • Includes: require ‘java’

  • Add link to website for Using New Gem on Windows (without cygwin) [thx Jorge Cangas]

  • index.txt “email me” now refers to forum url as well

• NewGem

  • An error message is shown if Hoe gem isn’t available when running rake on the gem

  • Lots of tasks refactored into /tasks folder

• How To UPGRADE

  • NOTE: We’ve never had a “How to Upgrade” before! :)

  • Copy your Rakefile to Rakefile.old (to retain your configuration)

  • Run: newgem .

  • Press ‘a’ to allow all changes.

  • Open config/hoe.rb

  • Replace this with the equivalent lines/details from Rakefile.old

  • Test all is well with “rake -T” and “rake check_manifest” (the manifest should have been rebuilt by ‘newgem .’)

0.12.0 2007-06-24

• 2 major enhancement

  • Using Erb for templates [thx snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/1723]

  • RubyGem.tmbundle for TextMate - to install go to gem folder and run “rake bundles:tm”

• 1 minor enhancement

  • -V option shows current newgem version [thx Gert Goet]

  • Hoe#extra_deps permanently changes @extra_deps [thx MIYAMUKO Katsuyuki]

• Dev improvements

  • Imports svn_branch for svn rake tasks

• Minor website changes

  • Added link to Topfunky’s tutorial on Hoe

0.11.0

• 1 major enhancement

  • Create trunk/branches/tags subfolders using -s/–svn option

• 6 minor enhancements

  • Added dependency to activesupport gem

  • Modified spec.rb template for new rpec syntax (describe “…” { it “…” }) [thx Aslak Hellesøy]

  • Added ‘email.txt’ to the CLEAN list to be removed on ‘rake clean’

  • Added –delete-excluded to the rsync command [thx Jeroen Janssen]

  • On template: “Version” is in <p>‘s

  • Specified CLEAN is added/or’d with default Hoe clean_globs (via |=)

• 1 website enhancement

  • Refreshed the example output as its a big old (CHANGELOG -> History.txt)

  • Removed the “click anywhere” javascript in version box - it was playing up with the link to the book

0.10.4 2007-06-02

• 2 minor enhancement

  • website_upload now ignores .svn files [Thx Jeroen Janssen]

  • website/index.txt includes link to "8 steps to fix other ppls code" and a default svn URL

• 1 website enhancement

  • Link to “Beginning Ruby” as it features this gem [Thx Peter Cooper for the plug] - its an affiliate amazon link so I can make $$$ and retire to Fiji

0.10.3 2007-05-25

• 1 major enhancement

  • rspec test framework now works via ‘spec’ task [Jeroen Janssen]

• 3 minor improvement

  • For rspec gems, default task => spec task

  • Generated rakefile checks for existance of rspec gem else shows how to get it

  • The require statement in the lib/<gemname>.rb file now uses lowercase project name [Jeroen Janssen]

0.10.2 2007-05-25

• 3 major enhancements

  • Generated Rakefile only attempts to discover username from ~/.rubyforge/user-config.yml when its required [thx Jeroen Janssen]

  • Helpful error message produced if ‘rubyforge setup’ never run

  • Fixed the REV algorithm for subversion [thx Robert Berger]

• 2 minor enhancement

  • Copied index.txt into README.txt - it looks crap, but at least there is content

  • Generated Rakefile was missing a \

0.10.1 2007-05-24

• 4 minor enhancements

  • Fixed the generation of test files in the manifest

  • Generated rakefiledeploy prompts user to do svn tag

  • Renamed README -> README.txt to conform to new hoe change

  • Changed History.txt markup (+++ => ==; + => *) [Thx Jeroen Janssen]

• 1 dependency update:

  • Hoe 1.2.1

• Still being worked on:

  • Gems using rspec include a spec task to run all spec tests; currently tests aren’t working.

0.10.0 2007-05-19

• 3 major enhancements

  * can generate rspec default tests (or still test::unit tests) using --with-test=rspec [thx Robby Russell]

  • fetches your full name and email from ~/.rubyforge/user-config.yml (add keys user_name and email)

• 2 minor enhancements

  • Generated lib/#{gem_name}.rb includes an empty module

  • Generated lib/#{gem_name}.rb does not include “require all”, instead you do it manually for each included file

0.9.4 2007-05-18

• 5 minor enhancements

  * Pass your full name into the generator to be inserted into License.txt, index.txt, Rakefile etc

  • ‘Licence’ => ‘License’ (thx Peter Burns)

  • Generates a blank index.html so that ‘rake package’ works straight away

  • Includes :local_deploy which does tasks :website_generate and :install_gem

  • License.txt generated * this gem has a License.txt file (MIT license)

0.9.3 20/4/2007

• 1 minor enhancement

  • Added ‘deploy’ task that generates website AND release new gem

• 1 website fix

  • Fixed download link

0.9.2 18/4/2007

• 1 minor improvement:

  • Generated apps include a “require ‘rubygems’ line at the top”

• 1 website fix

  • Notes that the index.txt file includes Dr Nic details, not their own.

0.9.1 16/4/2007

• 1 bugfix:

  • I thoughtfully added an extra line (commented out) for sending the website to a subfolder… it caused grief at the 13th hour

0.9.0 12/4/2007

• 3 major enhancements:

  • Includes a basic website template, with rake tasks for generation and upload to rubyforge

  • Generates a History.txt file, and automatically uses it in Hoe task

  • Generated applications include framework for supporting command line options

• 3 minor enhancements:

  • Include History.txt in this gem

  • test files ordered correctly in generated Manifest.txt

  • no blank line in Manifest.txt if no bin apps

0.8.1

• Generated test file’s class name now prefixed with Test, instead of suffixed

0.8.0

• Uses hoe itself - less hypocritical

• Generated test files use name ‘test_<gemname>.rb’ instead of ‘<gemname>_test.rb’ to support

• ZenTest’s autotest expectations of naming. Manifest updated too.

0.7.1

• Installed gems now don’t require ‘hoe’ (based on comments at blog.evanweaver.com/articles/2007/01/10/if-you-dont-want-to-hoe-echoe)

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