Rakefile in newgem-0.9.2 vs Rakefile in newgem-0.9.3

@@ -14,13 +14,14 @@
 EMAIL = "[e-mail]"
 DESCRIPTION = "Make your own gems at home"
 GEM_NAME = "newgem" # what ppl will type to install your gem
 RUBYFORGE_PROJECT = "newgem"
 HOMEPATH = "http://#{RUBYFORGE_PROJECT}.rubyforge.org"
+DOWNLOAD_PATH = "http://rubyforge.org/projects/#{RUBYFORGE_PROJECT}"
 
 REV = nil #File.read(".svn/entries")[/committed-rev="(\d+)"/, 1] rescue nil
-VERS = ENV['VERSION'] || (Newgem::VERSION::STRING + (REV ? ".#{REV}" : ""))
+VERS = Newgem::VERSION::STRING + (REV ? ".#{REV}" : "")
 CLEAN.include ['**/.*.sw?', '*.gem', '.config', '**/.DS_Store']
 RDOC_OPTS = ['--quiet', '--title', "newgem documentation",
     "--opname", "index.html",
     "--line-numbers", 
     "--main", "README",
@@ -74,6 +75,21 @@
   ENV['EMAIL'] = EMAIL
   ENV['DESCRIPTION'] = DESCRIPTION
   ENV['GEM_NAME'] = GEM_NAME
   ENV['RUBYFORGE_PROJECT'] = RUBYFORGE_PROJECT
   ENV['HOMEPATH'] = HOMEPATH
-end
\ No newline at end of file
+  ENV['DOWNLOAD_PATH'] = DOWNLOAD_PATH
+end
+
+desc 'Release the website and new gem version'
+task :deploy => [:check_version, :website, :release]
+
+task :check_version do
+  unless ENV['VERSION']
+    puts 'Must pass a VERSION=x.y.z release version'
+    exit
+  end
+  unless ENV['VERSION'] == VERS
+    puts "Please update your version.rb to match the release version, currently #{VERS}"
+    exit
+  end
+end