gemesis¶ ↑

This is a gem that provides some simple rake tasks for managing a rubygem.

For example:

Gem::Specification.new do |s|
  s.name = 'gemesis'
  s.version = '0.0.4'
  s.summary = 'some lightweight utilities to assist in managing a rubygem'
  s.authors << 'Mark Ryall'
  s.email = 'mark@ryall.name'
  s.homepage = %q{http://github.com/markryall/gemesis}
  s.files = Dir['bin/*'] + Dir['lib/**/*'] + ['README.rdoc', 'MIT-LICENSE']
  s.executables << 'collect_gems'
end

Make sure the version line is formatted as indicated - the major, minor and patch tasks will not work otherwise.

hg/git init

require 'gemesis/rake'

This will add the following rake tasks in a gem namespace:

• release - push, then increments version in gemspec

• push - builds the gem, pushes to rubyforge and

• build - builds the gem file

• install - installs the gem file

• uninstall - uninstalls the gem

• reinstall - uninstalls and installs the gem

• major - increments the major version number

• minor - increments the minor version number

• patch - increments the patch number

To run gem installation or uninstallation with sudo - set an environment variable SUDO to sudo

Note that push will create a repository tag so it is recommended you increment the gem version and commit all changes prior to executing a push.

Refer to semver.org/ for some sensible tips on versioning.

If you checkout any gem that uses gemesis (or has a gem specification file caled gemspec), you can use the collect_gems executable to install all necessary runtime and development depencies.

collect_gems was completely stolen from github.com/mdub/gem_collector