Rakefile in reflexive-0.0.6 vs Rakefile in reflexive-0.1.0

@@ -6,17 +6,23 @@
 end
 
 GEM_NAME = "reflexive"
 
 desc "Relese next version of reflexive gem (do that just after `git commit')"
-task :release do
+task :release => :spec do
   require "rubygems"
   require "rubygems/version"
   require "yaml"
 
-  current_version = YAML.load(`gem specification #{ GEM_NAME } -r`)["version"] || Gem::Version.new("0.0.0")
-  new_version = (current_version.segments[0..-2] + [current_version.segments[-1].succ]).join(".")
-  ENV["GEM_VERSION"] = new_version
+  if ENV["GEM_VERSION"]
+    # release version passed in ENV["GEM_VERSION"]
+    new_version = ENV["GEM_VERSION"]
+  else
+    # by default release next minor version
+    current_version = YAML.load(`gem specification #{ GEM_NAME } -r`)["version"] || Gem::Version.new("0.0.0")
+    new_version = (current_version.segments[0..-2] + [current_version.segments[-1].succ]).join(".")
+    ENV["GEM_VERSION"] = new_version
+  end
 
   puts "Releasing #{ GEM_NAME } #{ new_version }"
 
   sh "gem build #{ GEM_NAME }.gemspec --verbose"