From: Dr Nic <drnicwilliams@...>
Date: 2006-10-11T20:23:24+09:00
Subject: [ANN] newgem - Create gems for your libraries and apps

Now you can take any library or Rails plugin or command line 
application, gemify it, and easily share it with the Ruby world.

With gems you get in-built version support (you can specify which 
version of a gem you want when you use it via the require_gem method), 
an encapsulated, consistent folder structure for your bin/lib/test 
folders, and you get cross-platform support for bin apps. Too much 
niftiness to ignore, really.

The New Gem Generator is like the rails command for rails applications, 
but it creates the folders and starting files for a new gem. It’s called 
newgem.

Installation
> gem install newgem

Create new gem
> newgem map_by_method
creating: map_by_method
creating: map_by_method/CHANGELOG
creating: map_by_method/README
creating: map_by_method/lib
creating: map_by_method/lib/map_by_method
creating: map_by_method/lib/map_by_method.rb
creating: map_by_method/lib/map_by_method/version.rb
creating: map_by_method/Rakefile
creating: map_by_method/test
creating: map_by_method/test/all_tests.rb
creating: map_by_method/test/test_helper.rb
creating: map_by_method/test/map_by_method_test.rb
creating: map_by_method/examples
creating: map_by_method/bin

And away you go. The rest of the tutorial and comments are at: 
http://drnicwilliams.com/2006/10/11/generating-new-gems/

I hope this encourages you to share more code with others (both outside 
and inside your own workplace).

Nic

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