From: "Shot (Piotr Szotkowski)" <shot@...>
Date: 2009-12-01T06:10:45+09:00
Subject: Re: What's the new hotness for packaging gems?

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James Edward Gray II:

> On Nov 28, 2009, at 10:42 PM, Roger Pack wrote:

>> jeweler is what I'm using these days.

> I've seen several uses of it now and it always strikes me that
> it's just about the same size as a traditional gem specification.

Well, I have never created a gem myself prior to two-days-ago (and
I=E2=80=99m the kind of person who likes to read the docs a bit before doing
something for the first time) =E2=80=93 but now that I wanted to and got the
feeling that Jeweler might be worth a try, it was nice to find out
a five-line Rakefile task and a =E2=80=98rake version:bump:=E2=80=A6=E2=80=
=99 followed by
a =E2=80=98rake install=E2=80=99 is all I need to get the gemspec recreated=
, validated,
the gem rolled and subsequently gem-installed.

All this without even knowing what goes into the .gemspec, what ends up
in the .gem file (well, my curiousity won as usual, but still=E2=80=A6), no=
r how
to turn one into the other =E2=80=93 and I have the added bonus that once I=
 want
to actually punish the public by publishing the gem, it=E2=80=99s also a si=
ngle
Rake call away.

(Note that theversion:bump tasks also quietly create a bump commit with
a standard message, while the release task pushes to GitHub and tags the
commit appropriately; at the same time, the =E2=80=98jeweler=E2=80=99 comma=
nd can setup
a new project from scratch with both a fresh GitHub repo and the release
automagic, which can promote some kind of =E2=80=93 volundary, of course =
=E2=80=93 nice
standarisation of these things, not to mention the ease of setup.)

=E2=80=94 Shot
--=20
Unix co-creator Ken Thompson, asked what he=E2=80=99d do differently
if had it do all over again, replied that he=E2=80=99d include the
trailing =E2=80=98e=E2=80=99 in the creat() system call.

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