ability to build a rubygem from rakefile

.gitignore

@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
 *.swp
 ./tmp
 tmp/
+bin/*
+pkg
+*.gemspec

README.md

@@ -64,7 +64,6 @@ OPTIONAL (Publish personal resume gem)
   * http://rtomayko.github.com/ronn/ (markdown to man page)
 * possibly merge with a resume generator which after filling out some info via forms or yaml can generate varios resumes in all formats
   * Users could submit templates / stylesheets allowing for differently formatted resumes
-
 * rake task that generates proper single use gemfile and executable
 * make sinatra app depend on the gem
 * better filenames for the downloaded resume in various formats (currently saves as latex and markdown)

Rakefile

@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ require 'rake/testtask'
 
 task :default => ['test']
 
+GEM_NAME = "danmayer-resume"
+
 desc "run sintra server locally"
 task :run do
   exec "ruby resume.rb"
@@ -10,19 +12,29 @@ end
 begin
   require 'jeweler'
   Jeweler::Tasks.new do |gemspec|
-    gem_name = "danmayer-resume"
-    gemspec.name = gem_name
+    gemspec.name = GEM_NAME
     gemspec.summary = "Resume gem"
     gemspec.description = "A gem for Dan Mayer's resume"
     gemspec.email = "dan@mayerdan.com"
     gemspec.homepage = "http://github.com/danmayer/Resume"
     gemspec.authors = ["Dan Mayer"]
-    gemspec.executables = [gem_name]
+    gemspec.executables = [GEM_NAME]
   end
+  Jeweler::GemcutterTasks.new
 rescue LoadError
   puts "Jeweler not available. Install it with: gem install jeweler"
 end
 
+task :build => [:generate_exe]
+
+desc "generate the gem executable"
+task :generate_exe do
+  puts "copying executable from template"
+  `cp lib/resume_exe bin/#{GEM_NAME}`
+  puts "giving new file chmod +x"
+  `chmod o+x bin/#{GEM_NAME}`
+end
+
 desc "run all tests"
 task :test do
   Rake::Task['test:rack'].invoke