Gems. Simple.

I've written a few Ruby Gems in my time, it's true. In my experience it's always been a bit of a painful process - I could never come to grips with all the dependencies that hoe introduced and I always ended up reconfiguring things after running newgem --simple. So... I decided to write my own little gem that generates, well, gems.

Getting It

This should be all you need:

$ sudo gem install reagent-simple-gem --source http://gems.github.com

If that doesn't work, take a look at the README out on GitHub

Using It

Ready? Go.

$ simple-gem my-gem

Now you have a skeleton:

my-gem/
|-- README.markdown
|-- Rakefile
|-- lib
|   |-- my_gem
|   |   `-- version.rb
|   `-- my_gem.rb
`-- test
    `-- my_gem_test.rb

Write your codes, test them, and release:

$ cd my-gem
$ rake github
$ git add && git commit -m "Perfection."
$ git push origin master

There's more to it, but that's the basic idea. Check out the docs for more information and send me your feedback