Ruby Gem of the Week Series @ Planet Ruby - Week #1 factbook, Week #2 hoe, Week #3 slideshow

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Hello,

  FYI: I've started a new Ruby Gem of the Week series [1] (w/ web feed
[2]) that presents a new Ruby library every week on Thursday on Planet
Ruby. So far the gems presented include:

- Week #1 - factbook gem - turn the world factbook into open
structured data e.g JSON
- Week #2 - hoe gem - build, package and publish gems with hoe rake tasks
- Week #3 - slideshow gem - a free web alternative to PowerPoint and
Keynote in Ruby

  Happy Planet. Cheers.

PS: Have your say! Guest posts more than welcome.

[1] feedreader.github.io/planet-ruby
[2] feedreader.github.io/planet-ruby/atom.xml

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neat! thanks for the shoutout.

If you had comments at that page (*cough*), I would point out that you can use `sow` to build the project structure instead of doing it by hand.

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On Jan 19, 2015, at 15:28, Gerald Bauer <gerald.bauer@gmail.com> wrote:

- Week #2 - hoe gem - build, package and publish gems with hoe rake tasks

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Hello,

  First thanks for hoe and keeping it going and polishing all those
years. Hoe rocks.

If you had comments at that page (*cough*), I would point out that you can use
`sow` to build the project structure instead of doing it by hand.

    For learning - I'm "old school" - better start slow and
do-it-yourself the first time. Again thanks for the great rake task
suite - will add your suggestion w/ the next update.

   Thanks again. Keep it up. Cheers.

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Hello,

  FYI: Added a new bonus tip [1] with a link to the Hoe PDF booklet e.g.:

## Bonus Tip by Ryan Davis: Quick Starter Templates with `sow`

Ryan Davis writes: The easiest way to get started with hoe is to use
its included command-line tool `sow`:

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~~~
$ sow hellohoe
~~~

That will create a new directory `hellohoe` with a skeletal project
inside. You need to edit the
Rakefile with developer information in order to meet the minimum
requirements of a working gemspec.
You should also go fix all the things it points out as being labeled
with `FIX` in the `README.txt` file.

(Source: [Hoe PDF Booklet; 6 Pages](http://docs.seattlerb.org/hoe/Hoe.pdf\))

  Thanks again. Cheers.

[1] github.com/feedreader/planet-ruby/blob/gh-pages/_posts/2015-01-08-week-2-hoe.md

2015-01-20 8:34 GMT+01:00 Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@zenspider.com>:

On Jan 19, 2015, at 15:28, Gerald Bauer <gerald.bauer@gmail.com> wrote:

- Week #2 - hoe gem - build, package and publish gems with hoe rake tasks

neat! thanks for the shoutout.

If you had comments at that page (*cough*), I would point out that you can use `sow` to build the project structure instead of doing it by hand.