require 'rubygems' require 'rake/gempackagetask' require 'rubygems/specification' require 'date' GEM = "<%= name %>" GEM_VERSION = "0.0.1" AUTHOR = "Your Name" EMAIL = "Your Email" HOMEPAGE = "http://example.com" SUMMARY = "A gem that provides..." spec = Gem::Specification.new do |s| s.name = GEM s.version = GEM_VERSION s.platform = Gem::Platform::RUBY s.has_rdoc = true s.extra_rdoc_files = ["README", "LICENSE", 'TODO'] s.summary = SUMMARY s.description = s.summary s.author = AUTHOR s.email = EMAIL s.homepage = HOMEPAGE # Uncomment this to add a dependency # s.add_dependency "foo" s.require_path = 'lib' s.autorequire = GEM s.files = %w(LICENSE README Rakefile TODO) + Dir.glob("{lib,specs}/**/*") end Rake::GemPackageTask.new(spec) do |pkg| pkg.gem_spec = spec end desc "install the gem locally" task :install => [:package] do sh %{sudo gem install pkg/#{GEM}-#{GEM_VERSION}} end desc "create a gemspec file" task :make_spec do File.open("#{GEM}.gemspec", "w") do |file| file.puts spec.to_ruby end end