Version Manager

Automatically manage version updates and tagging. The new version will be written to your version file, history file and as a tagged git commit.

• Ruby >= 2.2
• Rake

# In Gemfile

group :development do
  gem "version_manager"
end

# In a Rake configuration file

require "version_manager/rake_task"

VersionManager::RakeTask.new(:release) do |config| # Argument is the namespace for tasks
  config.version_file = "lib/version.rb" # Path to your version file
  config.version_constant = "VERSION" # Version constant including namespaces
  config.history_file = "history.rdoc" # History file to be updated
  config.tag_format = "v%s" # %s will be replaced with the new version as tag names
  config.logger = Logger.new # Replace the logger to turn off / modify stdout logging
end

bundle exec rake release:patch # Patch release eg 1.2.3 => 1.2.4
bundle exec rake release:minor # Minor release eg 1.2.3 => 1.3.0
bundle exec rake release:major # Major release eg 1.2.3 => 2.0.0

The file which will be passed to load in order to load your current version number. It should be an absoltue file path or relative to your project's root

The constant which will be loaded as the current version. For example, if your version number is in a module called MyModule as the constant MY_VERSION, the version_constant would be "MyModule::MY_VERSION" (as a string)

Path to your history file. Currently only supports rdoc format.

The format git tags will be given after version has been updated. %s will be replaced with the version number

The logger to use when printing info messages. By default this just logs the messages with no formatting to STDOUT. If you want to suppress logging you can just use Logger.new "/dev/null"

Here is an example of what happens when you release a new version.

Given a version file lib/my_gem/version.rb which looks like this:

module MyGem
  VERSION = "1.2.3"
end

And a file history.rdoc which looks like this:

* Some important work
* Some bug fixes

And a rake task tasks/release.rake loaded by your Rakefile which looks like this:

require "version_manager/rake_task"

VersionManager::RakeTask.new do |config|
  config.version_file = "lib/my_gem/version.rb"
  config.version_constant = "MyGem::VERSION"
end

You can create a new release by using one of the following command:

bundle exec rake release:major
bundle exec rake release:minor
bundle exec rake release:patch

When you do this 3 things will happen:

• The version file will be rewritten to contain the new version

module MyGem
  VERSION = "2.0.0"
end

• This history file will have a new line containing the new version and today's date

== v2.0.0 (19 January 2017)

* Some important work
* Some bug fixes

• The history and version files are both commited and tagged in git

The only things left to do then is push your new tag and commit then deploy the new release