Releasing a Gem with Gemcutter

The other day Jon Maddox sent me a message on Github to see if I was thinking of putting my gem tmdb_party up on Gemcutter, the new RubyGem host on the block. At the time I hadn’t really thought much about doing this thought what the heck? It didn’t seem like it was too difficult so I thought I’d put it to the test around midnight on a Saturday night.

Well, I have got to say, this was probably the easiest thing I’ve ever done. I was going into this thinking it wouldn’t be too difficult but I was still impressed with how it went.

1. The first step is to sign up for a Gemcutter account right here which takes about 10 seconds.
2. The next step is to update your Jeweler Rakefile to add the Gemcutter task. I’ve included a sample of what my Rakefile looks like below.
   !include tomd-include-0.txt
3. Now all you need to do is push your gem the new task and provide your Gemcutter credentials
   !include tomd-include-1.txt

That’s it, now my tmdb_party gem is up on Gemcutter. On a side note, if you’re not using Jeweler to manage and release your gems you really should, it makes releasing a gem incredibly simple.

Now go put your gems up on Gemcutter!

update:
Jon just reminded me that if you don’t want to add the Jeweler task it’s still just one simple command to release your gem:

gem push pkg/tmdb_party_0.4.0.gem

Boom! Released! Thanks for the reminder Jon!</i>