Reissue

Prepare the releases of your Ruby gems with ease.

When creating versioned software, it is important to keep track of the changes and the versions that are released.

After each release of a gem, you should immediatly bump the version with a new number and update the changelog with a place to capture the information about new changes.

Reissue helps you to prepare the next version of your project by providing tools which will update version numbers and update the changelog with a new version and a date.

Use Reissue to prepare your first commit going into the new version.

Standard procedure for releasing projects with Reissue:

1. Create a version with some number like 0.1.0.
2. Add commits to the project. These will be associated with the version 0.1.0.
3. When you are releasing your project, finalize it by running rake reissue:finalize to update the Unreleased version in your changelog.
4. Bump the version to 0.1.1 with rake reissue[patch] and commit those changes. Future commits will be associated with the version 0.1.1 until your next release.

Install the gem and add to the application's Gemfile by executing:

$ bundle add reissue

If bundler is not being used to manage dependencies, install the gem by executing:

$ gem install reissue

If you are working with a gem, you can add the following to the Rakefile:

require "reissue/gem"

Reissue::Task.create :reissue do |task|
  # Required: The file to update with the new version number.
  task.version_file = "lib/my_gem/version.rb"
end

This will add the following rake tasks:

• rake reissue[segment] - Prepare a new version for future work for the given version segment.
• rake reissue:finalize[date] - Update the CHANGELOG.md file with a date for the latest version.
• rake reissue:reformat[version_limit] - Reformat the CHANGELOG.md file and optionally limit the number of versions to maintain.
• rake reissue:branch[branch-name] - Create a new branch for the next version. Controlled by the push_finalize and commit_finalize options.
• rake reissue:push - Push the changes to the remote repository. Controlled by the push_finalize and commit_finalize options.

This will also update the build task from rubygems to first run reissue:finalize and then build the gem, ensuring that your changelog is up-to-date before the gem is built.

It updates the release task from rubygems to run reissue after the gem is pushed to rubygems.

Build your own release with rake tasks provided by the gem.

Add the following to the Rakefile:

require "reissue/rake"

Reissue::Task.create :reissue do |task|
  # Required: The file to update with the new version number.
  task.version_file = "path/to/version.rb"
end

When creating your task, you have additional options to customize the behavior:

require "reissue/rake"

Reissue::Task.create :your_name_and_namespace do |task|

  # Optional: The name of the task. Defaults to "reissue".
  task.name = "your_name_and_namespace"

  # Optional: The description of the main task.
  task.description = "Prepare the next version of the gem."

  # Required: The file to update with the new version number.
  task.version_file = "path/to/version.rb"

  # Optional: The number of versions to maintain in the changelog. Defaults to 2.
  task.version_limit = 5

  # Optional: A Proc to format the version number. Receives a Gem::Version object, and segment.
  task.version_redo_proc = ->(version, segment) do
    # your special versioning logic
  end

  # Optional: The file to update with the new version number. Defaults to "CHANGELOG.md".
  task.changelog_file = "path/to/CHANGELOG.md"

  # Optional: Whether to commit the changes automatically. Defaults to true.
  task.commit = false

  # Optional: Whether or not to commit the results of the finalize task. Defaults to true.
  task.commit_finalize = false

  # Optional: Whether to push the changes automatically. Defaults to false.
  task.push_finalize = :branch # or false, or true to push the working branch
end

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake test to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

Run rake build:checksum to build the gem and generate the checksum. This will also update the version number in the gemspec file.

Run rake release to create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

This will leave a new commit with the version number incremented in the version file and the changelog updated with the new version. Push the changes to the repository.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/SOFware/reissue.