Updated suggested usage (begin/rescue loading jeweler).

README.markdown

@@ -6,17 +6,23 @@
 # Create a Rakefile:
 
     require 'rake'
-    require 'jeweler'
-
-    Jeweler.gemspec = Gem::Specification.new do |s|
-      s.name = "jeweler"
-      s.summary = "Simple and opinionated helper for creating Rubygem projects on GitHub"
-      s.email = "josh@technicalpickles.com"
-      s.homepage = "http://github.com/technicalpickles/jeweler"
-      s.description = "Simple and opinionated helper for creating Rubygem projects on GitHub"
-      s.authors = ["Josh Nichols"]
+
+    begin
+      require 'jeweler'
+      Jeweler.gemspec = Gem::Specification.new do |s|
+        s.name = "jeweler"
+        s.summary = "Simple and opinionated helper for creating Rubygem projects on GitHub"
+        s.email = "josh@technicalpickles.com"
+        s.homepage = "http://github.com/technicalpickles/jeweler"
+        s.description = "Simple and opinionated helper for creating Rubygem projects on GitHub"
+        s.authors = ["Josh Nichols", "Dan Croak"]
+        s.files =  FileList["[A-Z]*", "{generators,lib,test}/**/*"]
+      end
+    rescue LoadError
+      puts "Jeweler not available. Try installing technicalpickles-jeweler."
     end
 
+
 Note, we don't include 'date', or 'version'. Jeweler takes care of that.
 
 If you don't specify `s.files`, it will use `s.files = FileList["[A-Z]*", "{generators,lib,test,spec}/**/*"]`

Rakefile

@@ -2,14 +2,18 @@ require 'rake'
 require 'rake/testtask'
 
 $:.unshift('lib')
-require 'jeweler'
 
-Jeweler.gemspec = Gem::Specification.new do |s|
-  s.name = "jeweler"
-  s.summary = "Simple and opinionated helper for creating Rubygem projects on GitHub"
-  s.email = "josh@technicalpickles.com"
-  s.homepage = "http://github.com/technicalpickles/jeweler"
-  s.description = "Simple and opinionated helper for creating Rubygem projects on GitHub"
-  s.authors = ["Josh Nichols", "Dan Croak"]
-  s.files =  FileList["[A-Z]*", "{generators,lib,test}/**/*"]
-end
+begin
+  require 'jeweler'
+  Jeweler.gemspec = Gem::Specification.new do |s|
+    s.name = "jeweler"
+    s.summary = "Simple and opinionated helper for creating Rubygem projects on GitHub"
+    s.email = "josh@technicalpickles.com"
+    s.homepage = "http://github.com/technicalpickles/jeweler"
+    s.description = "Simple and opinionated helper for creating Rubygem projects on GitHub"
+    s.authors = ["Josh Nichols", "Dan Croak"]
+    s.files =  FileList["[A-Z]*", "{generators,lib,test}/**/*"]
+  end
+rescue LoadError
+  puts "Jeweler not available. Try installing technicalpickles-jeweler."
+end

TODO

@@ -2,6 +2,5 @@
   * ruby-debug -> Ruby::Debug
   * safety_valve -> SafetyValve
  * Generator for making new Jeweler projects
- * Add output of what version was just bumped to
  * Git tagging/branching
  * Release task