Jeweler provides two things:
- Rake tasks for managing gems and versioning of a GitHub project
- A generator for creating kickstarting a new project
# Install the gem:
sudo gem install jeweler
It's easy to get up and running. Update your Rakefile to instantiate a Jeweler::Tasks
, and give it a block with details about your project.
begin
require 'jeweler'
Jeweler::Tasks.new do |gemspec|
gemspec.name = "the-perfect-gem"
gemspec.summary = "Summarize your gem"
gemspec.description = "Describe your gem"
gemspec.email = "[email protected]"
gemspec.homepage = "http://github.com/technicalpickles/the-perfect-gem"
gemspec.description = "TODO"
gemspec.authors = ["Josh Nichols"]
end
rescue LoadError
puts "Jeweler not available. Install it with: sudo gem install technicalpickles-jeweler -s http://gems.github.com"
end
The yield object here, gemspec
, is a Gem::Specification
object. See the Customizing your project's gem specification for more details about how you can customize your gemspec.
Jeweler provides a generator. It requires you to setup your name and email for git and your username and token for GitHub.
jeweler the-perfect-gem
This will prepare a project in the 'the-perfect-gem' directory, setup to use Jeweler.
It supports a number of options:
- --create-repo: in addition to preparing a project, it create an repo up on GitHub and enable RubyGem generation
- --testunit: generate test_helper.rb and test ready for test/unit
- --minitest: generate test_helper.rb and test ready for minitest
- --shoulda: generate test_helper.rb and test ready for shoulda (this is the default)
- --rspec: generate spec_helper.rb and spec ready for rspec
- --bacon: generate spec_helper.rb and spec ready for bacon
- --gemcutter: setup releasing to gemcutter
- --rubyforge: setup releasing to rubyforge
Jeweler respects the JEWELER_OPTS environment variable. Want to always use RSpec, and you're using bash? Add this to ~/.bashrc:
export JEWELER_OPTS="--rspec"
Jeweler handles generating a gemspec file for your project:
rake gemspec
This creates a gemspec for your project. It's based on the info you give Jeweler::Tasks
, the current version of your project, and some defaults that Jeweler provides.
Jeweler gives you tasks for building and installing your gem:
rake build
rake install
Jeweler tracks the version of your project. It assumes you will be using a version in the format x.y.z
. x
is the 'major' version, y
is the 'minor' version, and z
is the patch version.
Initially, your project starts out at 0.0.0. Jeweler provides Rake tasks for bumping the version:
rake version:bump:major
rake version:bump:minor
rake version:bump:patch
Jeweler handles releasing your gem into the wild:
rake release
It does the following for you:
- Regenerate the gemspec to the latest version of your project
- Push to GitHub (which results in a gem being build)
- Tag the version and push to GitHub
Jeweler can also handle releasing to Gemcutter. There are a few steps you need to do before doing any Gemcutter releases with Jeweler:
- Create an account on Gemcutter
- Install the Gemcutter gem: sudo gem install gemcutter
- Run 'gemcutter tumble' to set up RubyGems to use gemcutter as the default source
- Update your Rakefile to make an instance of
Jeweler::GemcutterTasks
A Rakefile setup for gemcutter would include something like this:
begin
require 'jeweler'
Jeweler::Tasks.new do |gem|
# ommitted for brevity
end
Jeweler::GemcutterTasks.new
rescue LoadError
puts "Jeweler (or a dependency) not available. Install it with: sudo gem install jeweler"
end
With all that setup out of the way, you can now release to Gemcutter with impunity. This would release the current version of your gem.
$ rake gemcutter:release
Jeweler can also handle releasing to RubyForge. There are a few steps you need to do before doing any RubyForge releases with Jeweler:
- Create an account on RubyForge
- Request a project on RubyForge.
- Install the RubyForge gem: sudo gem install rubyforge
- Run 'rubyforge setup' and fill in your username and password for RubyForge
- Run 'rubyforge config' to pull down information about your projects
- Run 'rubyforge login' to make sure you are able to login
- In Jeweler::Tasks, you must set
rubyforge_project
to the project you just created - Add Jeweler::RubyforgeTasks to bring in the appropriate tasks.
- Note, using
jeweler --rubyforge
when generating the project does this for you automatically.
A Rakefile setup for rubyforge would include something like this:
begin
require 'jeweler'
Jeweler::Tasks.new do |s|
# ommitted for brevity
s.rubyforge_project = 'the-perfect-gem' # This line would be new
end
Jeweler::RubyforgeTasks.new do |rubyforge|
rubyforge.doc_task = "rdoc"
end
rescue LoadError
puts "Jeweler, or a dependency, not available. Install it with: sudo gem install jeweler"
end
Now you must initially create a 'package' for your gem in your RubyForge 'project':
$ rake rubyforge:setup
With all that setup out of the way, you can now release to RubyForge with impunity. This would release the current version of your gem, and upload the rdoc as your project's webpage.
$ rake rubyforge:release
- Hack, commit, hack, commit, etc, etc
rake version:bump:patch release
to do the actual version bump and release- Have a delicious scotch
- Install gemstalker, and use it to know when gem is built. It typically builds in a few minutes, but won't be installable for another 15 minutes.