Jeweler should support a non-rubyforge publish_docs task.

[postmodern]

Now that the rubyforge tasks are slowly being deprecated, Jeweler should provide a task for publishing documentation along with the release of a version. At the minimum a publish_docs task might accept a host, port and path to rsync the documentation directory to. This publish_docs task should be invoked along with the release task, so that the published documentation is coupled to the released version.

[technicalpickles]

Personally, I'd prefer not to do any documentation publishing, and instead rely on rdoc.info for hosting.

But, if there's enough need for it, I could see something like documentation:release, and then have it use the same paradigm as the old rubyforge task had for hooking into the release process.

[dreamcat4]

Hi,
Ive really got an itch to scratch with you on this one.

Link to original discussion:
http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/205123

If i write all of the necessary code, would you be kind enough to allow grancher to be either embedded, or included as a gem dependency of jeweler? This whole problem becomes easier with grancher. Dont mind if documentation:release task is not by default included in rake release. But as long as jewler can have the code necessary to do it, then can be easily enabled my people in their configuration files, or something right?

[postmodern]

If everything goes as planed, I will be moving most of my documentation to a third-party server that my friends run. Thus I would need the ability to rsync the /doc(s)?/ directory out to the server. If Jeweler needs an rsync interface, I already have multiple instances of code laying around to call rsync.

[dreamcat4]

Ah postmodern,

Well the use case i am referring to is out-of-the-box gh-pages support for TP's suggested documentation:release rake task. Perhaps I overlooked your references to rsync here in the opening comment. Not so sure what your talking about.

My questions were directed to TechnicalPickles here, and whether to (will he or wont he?) allow me to use grancher in a contribution to jeweler.

Sorry for any confusion, but I dont believe thats the solution that your looking for, postmodern.

I'll just open a seperate issue for my request.