From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2008-07-03T09:53:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Worthwhile to build a gem?

On Jul 2, 2008, at 14:14 PM, Greg Willits wrote:
> I have a project where a number of internally-developed Ruby libraries
> will need to be installed on numerous machines. Small apps will then  
> be
> written using this set of libraries almost like a framework really.
>
> Is it worth considering building a gem out of this library and  
> running a
> private gem server in order to manage these libraries? The alternative
> would be to maintain working copies (maybe in site_ruby?) from an svn
> server -- much like you'd typically maintain a Rails app on servers.
>
> This site seems to to be very out of date http://docs.rubygems.org/
> based on the version numbers and self-proclaimed recent updates page.
>
> This page http://docs.rubygems.org/read/chapter/5 says to see the
> DevelopersGuide, but I can't find such a critter anywhere, so where is
> there current info available on building gems?

Rake::GemPackageTask is probably what you'll find easiest for this:

Rake::PackageTask.new("package") do |p|
   p.name = PKG_NAME # string
   p.version = PKG_VERSION # string
   p.package_files = PKG_FILES # array
end