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Cut and Polish A Guide to Crafting Gems

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Pat Allan @pat freelancing-gods.com

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Say Hello!

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“Use rubygems to publish your gem to rubygems”

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“Use rubygems to publish your gem to rubygems”

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“Use gem to publish your gem to rubygems”

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“Use gem to publish your gem to rubygems”

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“Use the gem command to publish your gem to rubygems.org”

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noun a precious or semiprecious stone, esp. when cut and polished or engraved. |jem| gem

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noun a packaged code library written in the Ruby programming language. |jem| gem

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noun a command line executable distributed with the RubyGems package manager. |jem| gem

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noun a package manager for Ruby libraries. |ˈro͞obējemz| rubygems

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noun a website that stores published versions of Ruby gems. |ˈro͞obējemz| rubygems

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Why?

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Why? re-use code

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Why? easy to install

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Why? easy to share

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History

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History 2003 rubyforge.org

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History 2004 rubygems

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“If you have libraries you would like to include, please send the gem les to either myself or Rich Kilmer” Chad Fowler, 15 March 2004

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History gems were magical

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History permission was required

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History 2009 gemcutter.org

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History anyone can publish

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History rubygems.org

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Gemspecs

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Gemspecs pdx.gemspec

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# pdx.gemspec Gem::Specification.new do |s| s.name = ‘pdx’ s.version = ‘0.0.1’ s.authors = [‘Pat Allan’] s.email = [‘[email protected]’] s.homepage = ‘’ s.summary = ‘RailsConf Gem’ s.description = ‘’ s.files = [...] s.test_files = [...] s.executables = [...] end

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s.name = ‘pdx’ Naming

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Naming # name ‘will_paginate’ # requiring require ‘will_paginate’ # Class/Module WillPaginate

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Naming # name ‘cucumber-rails’ # requiring require ‘cucumber/rails’ # Class/Module Cucumber::Rails

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Versions s.version = ‘0.0.1’

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Versions s.version = ‘Major.Minor.Release’

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Versions Major Versions

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Versions Minor Versions

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Versions Release Versions

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Versions Reference

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Versions # lib/pdx/version.rb module PDX VERSION = ‘0.0.1’ end

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Versions # pdx.gemspec require ‘pdx/version’ # ... s.version = PDX::VERSION

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Versions VERSION = ‘1.0.0.beta1’

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Authors, Emails & Homepage s.authors = [‘Pat Allan’] s.email = [‘[email protected]’] s.homepage = ‘https:// github.com/pat/pdx’

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Summary & Description s.summary = ‘RailsConf Gem’ s.description = ‘All the Ruby code’

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Files s.files = [ ‘lib/pdx.rb’, ‘lib/pdx/version.rb’, ‘README.textile’, ‘LICENCE’ ]

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Files lib/pdx.rb

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Files PDX::RailsConf lib/pdx/rails_conf.rb PDX::Hipster lib/pdx/hipster.rb

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Files # Don’t do this lib/pdx.rb lib/rails_conf.rb lib/hipster.rb

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Information Files README

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Information Files LICENCE

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Information Files HISTORY

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Test Files s.test_files = [ ‘spec/pdx_spec.rb’, ‘spec/spec_helper.rb’ ]

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Test Files Beware Large Test Suites

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Test Files Travis CI

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Executables s.executables = [ ‘bin/pdx’ ]

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Executables #!/usr/bin/env ruby require ‘pdx’ PDX::CLI.run

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# pdx.gemspec Gem::Specification.new do |s| s.name = ‘pdx’ s.version = ‘0.0.1’ s.authors = [‘Pat Allan’] s.email = [‘[email protected]’] s.homepage = ‘’ s.summary = ‘RailsConf Gem’ s.description = ‘’ s.files = [...] s.test_files = [...] s.executables = [...] end

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Dependencies s.add_runtime_dependency ‘rails’, ‘>= 3.0.0’

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Dependencies s.add_development_dependency ‘rspec’, ‘>= 2.6.0’

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Dependencies Dependency Versions

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Dependencies s.add_runtime_dependency ‘rails’, ‘~> 3.1’

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Dependencies ~>

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Dependencies ~> 3.1 == [>= 3.1 && < 4.0] ~> 3.0.3 == [>= 3.0.3 && < 3.1]

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Dependencies s.add_development_dependency ‘rspec’, ‘= 2.6.0’

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Rake Tasks

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# run tests rake spec # generate documentation rake yard # default task should run tests rake

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Railties

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Rails Railties class PDX::Railtie < Rails::Railtie rake_tasks do load File.expand_path( '../tasks.rb', __FILE__ ) end end

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Engines

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Rails Engines class PDX::Engine < Rails::Engine engine_name :pdx paths['app/controllers'] << 'lib/pdx/controllers' end

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Publishing

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Publishing gem build pdx.gemspec #=> pdx-0.0.1.gem

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Gem Files .gem == .tar

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Publishing gem push pdx-0.0.1.gem

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Publishing Permanent

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Publishing (Don’t) Yank

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Publishing MRI 1.9 Caution

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Community

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Community Support

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Community GitHub

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Community Releases

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Bundler

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Bundler Recommended

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Bundler Not Required

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Bundler # Gemfile source ‘https://rubygems.org’ gemspec

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Bundler # Gemfile gemspec gem ‘mysql2’, :platform => :ruby gem ‘jdbc-mysql’, :platform => :jruby

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Bundler rake release

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Bundler # Rakefile Bundler::GemHelper. install_tasks

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Tools

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Tools Hoe

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Tools Jeweler

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Examples

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Examples bundle open pdx

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Thank You Questions?

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http://railsconftutorials.com http://bit.ly/pat-gems Tutorial Instructions here: Gems available here: