Ever wanted to manage your RubyGem in a sane way without having to resort to external dependencies like Jeweler or Hoe? Ever thought that Rake and a hand crafted gemspec should be enough to deal with these problems? If so, then RakeGem is here to make your life awesome!
RakeGem is not a library. It is just a few simple file templates that you can copy into your project and easily customize to match your specific needs. It ships with a few Rake tasks to help you keep your gemspec up-to-date, build a gem, and release your library and gem to the world.
RakeGem assumes you are using Git. This makes the Rake tasks easy to write. If you are using something else, you should be able to get RakeGem up and running with your system without too much editing.
The RakeGem tasks were inspired by the Sinatra project.
Take a look at Rakefile and NAME.gemspec. For new projects, you can start
with these files and edit a few lines to make them fit into your library. If
you have an existing project, you'll probably want to take the RakeGem
versions and copy any custom stuff from your existing Rakefile and gemspec
into them. As long as you're careful, the rake tasks should keep working.
RakeGem makes a few assumptions. You will either need to satisfy these assumptions or modify the rake tasks to work with your setup.
You should have a file named lib/NAME.rb (where NAME is the name of your
library) that contains a version line. It should look something like this:
module NAME
VERSION = '0.1.0'
end
It is important that you use the constant VERSION and that it appear on a
line by itself.
In order to make a new release, you'll want to update the version. With
RakeGem, you only need to do that in the lib/NAME.rb file. Everything else
will use this find the canonical version of the library.
RakeGem provides three rake tasks:
rake gemspec will update your gemspec with the latest version (taken from
the lib/NAME.rb file) and file list (as reported by git ls-files).
rake build will update your gemspec, build your gemspec into a gem, and
place it in the pkg directory.
rake release will update your gemspec, build your gem, make a commit with
the message Release 0.1.0 (with the correct version, obviously), tag the
commit with v0.1.0 (again with the correct version), and push the master
branch and new tag to origin.
Keep in mind that these are just simple Rake tasks and you can edit them however you please. Don't want to auto-commit or auto-push? Just delete those lines. You can bend RakeGem to your own needs. That's the whole point!