[Rubygems-developers] MetaProject

[aslak hellesoy]

Hi all,

The past month I've been working on a project (MetaProject:
http://xforge.rubyforge.org/) that among other things includes a quick
release system (QRS) for (among other places) RubyForge.

With MetaProject's Rake task, releasing new gems on RubyForge is a breeze:

task :release_files => [:gem] do
  release_files = FileList[
    "pkg/#{PKG_FILE_NAME}.gem"
  ]

  Rake::XForge::Release.new(MetaProject::Project::XForge::RubyForge.new('xforge'))
do |release|
    # Never hardcode user name and password in the Rakefile!

    release.user_name = ENV['RUBYFORGE_USER']

    release.password = ENV['RUBYFORGE_PASSWORD']
    release.files = release_files.to_a
    release.release_name = "MetaProject #{PKG_VERSION}"

    # The rest of the options are defaults (among others,
release_notes and release_changes, parsed from CHANGES)
  end
end

Would you consider mentioning this in the RubyGems documentation?

Cheers,
Aslak