I just don’t get it. Hoe looks like a convenience library for creating and deploying gems. But it’s not convenient at all. In fact, due to the extremely sparse documentation, it seems more difficult to use that the standard rake tasks that everybody already has installed.

Maybe I’m missing something, but having worked with Hoe on a project for the last few weeks, the most satisfying part was ripping the damn thing out of my project.

Disclaimer: I used newgem to build my project, so it could be their provided templates rather than Hoe itself that are so confounding.