Using rake to publish a gem to rubygems.org

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• install rubyforge with gem install rubyforge
• rubyforge config
• rubyforge setup
• Goto the project directory and do: rake release VERSION=0.6.5.0 --trace
• to publish the docs do: rake publish_docs
• to show all rake commands: rake -T
• to post News: rubyforge post_news spreadsheet "spreadsheet 0.6.5.3 released", "Patch from Alexandre Bini"

Documentation:

• https://rubygems.org/pages/gem_docs
• http://nubyonrails.com/articles/tutorial-publishing-rubygems-with-hoe
• https://wikihub.berkeley.edu/display/istas/How+to+Publish+a+Gem+on+Rubyforge
• http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/hoe/classes/Hoe/Publish.html
• remote_rdoc_dir

Errors

• no <group_id> configured for: solution, also make sure that your project name in the Rakefile is correct. rubyforge --help will help as well.
• if rake publish_docs does not publish anything then just copy the files with scp -r username@rubyforge.org:/var/www/gforge-projects/projectname/
• release the gem to the rubyforge page: rubyforge add_release spreadsheet spreadsheet 0.6.5.7 pkg/spreadsheet-0.6.5.7.gem
• gem owner deoddb --add user@email.com

Rubyforge package_ids .rubyforge/auto-config.yml:

• do a

 rubyforge config
 to download all the parameters first. The you will not need to know the IDs.

• spreadsheet: 759
• rpdf2txt: 13506
• swissmedic-diff: 13508

group_ids .rubyforge/auto-config.yml:

• spreadsheet: 678
• rpdf2txt: 9802
• swissmedic-diff: 9804