From: Leslie Viljoen <leslieviljoen@...>
Date: 2008-06-10T05:57:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Making a gem

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 8:15 AM, Leslie Viljoen <leslieviljoen@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 1:17 AM, Drew Olson <olsonas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Leslie Viljoen wrote:
>>> ..I can set up such a file, but where do I get all these id's?
>>> After that, how do I inform the 'rubyforge' program that this file
>>> exists?
>>
>> Run the following:
>>
>> rubyforge --config
>>
>> You should be all set.
>
> I did that and it created a user-config.yml file in ~/.rubyforge with
> these contents:
>
> ---
> uri: http://rubyforge.org
> is_private: false
> username: lesliev
> cookie_jar: /home/lesliev/.rubyforge/cookie.dat
> password: makeGems
>
> ...but now when I try to release my gem:
>
> lesliev@lesliev-laptop:~/dev/mygems/glader$ rake release VERSION=1.0.0
> (in /home/lesliev/dev/mygems/glader)
> ���� �\�tar zcvf glader-1.0.0.tgz glader-1.0.0
> glader-1.0.0/
> glader-1.0.0/Manifest.txt
> glader-1.0.0/README.txt
> glader-1.0.0/test/
> glader-1.0.0/test/test_glader.rb
> glader-1.0.0/lib/
> glader-1.0.0/lib/glader.rb
> glader-1.0.0/bin/
> glader-1.0.0/bin/glader
> glader-1.0.0/History.txt
> glader-1.0.0/Rakefile
>  Successfully built RubyGem
>  Name: glader
>  Version: 1.0.0
>  File: glader-1.0.0.gem
> Logging in
> Releasing glader v. 1.0.0
> rake aborted!
> no <group_id> configured for <glader>

I figured this out, for anyone else who's looking. You need to create
the project on Rubyforge itself before you can use the release
command. After "rubyforge names" shows your project, you can "rake
release".

Les