RailsPackager

Include this gem in your Rails project's Gemfile:

gem "rails_packager"

Package your project as a gzipped tar file via:

$ rake package

or via:

$ rails_package

You can enable verbose mode, and customize the name of the tarball via the following:

$ rake package[customized-tarball-name] verbose=true
$ rails_package -v --name customized-tarball-name

You can include or exclude specific files, or customize what actions happen before, after, or during packaging. Below is the default config that will be used, unless you defined a .rails-package YAML file customizing the config.

---
env: {}
name: 
include: 
exclude:
- "**/.git"
- tmp
before:
- - bundle install --deployment --without development test
  - unsetenv:
    - RUBYOPT
    - RUBYLIB
    - BUNDLER_ORIG_GEM_PATH
    - BUNDLER_ORIG_PATH
    env:
      GEM_PATH: "${BUNDLER_ORIG_GEM_PATH}"
- gem install bundler --install-dir vendor/bundle
- - bundle exec rake assets:precompile
  - unsetenv:
    - RUBYOPT
    - RUBYLIB
    - BUNDLER_ORIG_GEM_PATH
    - BUNDLER_ORIG_PATH
    env:
      RAILS_ENV: production
      GEM_PATH: "${BUNDLER_ORIG_GEM_PATH}"
package: tar --no-recursion --files-from @{files_file} -zcvf @{name}.tar.gz
after: 

In most parts of the configuration, you may use a few special variables, such as ${ENV_VARIABLE} to embed a value from an environment variable. You may use @{name} to embed the name of the project (which defaults to the parent folder name, but can be overridden in the config or via a command line option). The @{files} variable will expand to all files that will be included in the package, and @{files_file} will generate a temporary file used during packaging that contains every file listed one per line (the path to this temporary file will be the expanded result).

If you have a Jarfile in your project, and you have not customized the before configuration, then jbundler will automatically be inserted after the bundle and installing of bundler with this command:

jbundle install --vendor

This project rocks and uses MIT-LICENSE.