Gemcutting 101

An overview of the steps to making and publishing your own Ruby gem

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1. carvin’ it out: basics of gemcutting ted dumitrescu signal creative webdev@cmme.org http://cmme.org/tdumitrescu http://github.com/tdumitrescu http://signalcreative.co
2. three beautiful steps ¡ extracting ¡ testing ¡ publishing ted dumitrescu: basics of gemcutting | http://cmme.org/tdumitrescu
3. extracting ¡ write the code before making the gem sample repo: https://github.com/tdumitrescu/gemex ¡ bootstrap the project: http://bundler.io/v1.5/bundle_gem.html bundle gem old_yeller ¡ edit gemspec ¡ code in lib/ ted dumitrescu: basics of gemcutting | http://cmme.org/tdumitrescu
4. testing ¡ automated testing! ¡ with rspec: .gemspec: spec.add_development_dependency "rspec", "~> 2.14"
 bundle
 bundle exec rspec --init
 spec/old_yeller_spec.rb bundle exec rspec" ¡ manual testing: loading local gems Gemfile: gem "old_yeller", path: [path to gem] ted dumitrescu: basics of gemcutting | http://cmme.org/tdumitrescu
5. publishing ¡ on rubygems: http://guides.rubygems.org/make-your-own-gem/ ¡ build gem locally: gem build old_yeller.gemspec" ¡ push to rubygems: gem push old_yeller-0.0.1.gem ¡ don’t forget to publish the code (try Github!) ted dumitrescu: basics of gemcutting | http://cmme.org/tdumitrescu
6. some further topics ¡ versioning ¡ configuration patterns ¡ using datastores and complex services ¡ integration with Rails (engines) ¡ personal examples: https://github.com/tdumitrescu/feature_guard https://github.com/lumoslabs/scripterator ted dumitrescu: basics of gemcutting | http://cmme.org/tdumitrescu