rsanheim-echoe

Echoe

A Rubygems packaging tool that provides Rake tasks for documentation, extension compiling, testing, and deployment.

== License

Copyright 2007, 2008 Cloudburst, LLC. Licensed under the AFL 3. See the included LICENSE file. Portions copyright 2006 Ryan Davis/Zen Spider Software and used with permission. See the included MIT-LICENSE file.

The public certificate for the gem is here[http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/25331/evan_weaver-original-public_cert.pem].

If you use this software, please {make a donation}[http://blog.evanweaver.com/donate/], or {recommend Evan}[http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/7739-evan-weaver] at Working with Rails.

== Features

• simple configuration
• comprehensive gem deployment
• cross-packaging
• signed gem support
• automatic changeset parsing
• documentation upload to any host

= Usage

== Installation

Install the gem: sudo gem install echoe

If you haven't already, make sure Rubyforge is configured locally and your password is correctly set: rubyforge setup rubyforge config

== Project configuration

Organize your gem according to the usual structure:

lib/ README LICENSE CHANGELOG Rakefile

You can add the bin/ or ext/ folders if you have executables or extensions, respectively.

Your CHANGELOG should be formatted as follows (including newlines):

v2.1. newest change

v2. older change

v1.9. oldest change

This way Echoe can parse the latest version and changeset message automatically.

Your Rakefile needs the following minimal contents:

require 'echoe'
Echoe.new('gem_name')

More advanced configuration is described in the Echoe class.

== Deploying your gem

To deploy the gem and documentation:

rake manifest rake release rake publish_docs

Once you've built your manifest, you only need to rebuild it if you add or remove files from the package structure.

= Extras

== All Rake tasks

The following tasks are made available to your gem.

Packaging:

• manifest - Build a manifest list. Shows added and removed files.
• docs - Build the documentation.
• package - Build all the packages.

Testing:

• test - Run the test suite.
• coverage - Generate a coverage report.
• compile - Compile C extensions, if available.
• clean - Clean up generated documentation, packaging, and build files.
• install - Install the gem locally.
• uninstall - Uninstall the gem.

Upload:

• publish_docs - Publish documentation to the web.
• release - Package and upload the latest release to Rubyforge.
• announce - Generate a release announcement, edit it, and post it to Rubyforge.

Cleaning:

• clean - Delete all the generated documentation and packages.
• redocs - Force a rebuild of the Rdoc files.
• repackage - Force a rebuild of the package files.

== Reporting problems

The support forum is here[http://rubyforge.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=13986].

Patches and contributions are very welcome. Please note that contributors are required to assign copyright for their additions to Cloudburst, LLC.

== Further resources

• http://blog.evanweaver.com/articles/2007/01/10/if-you-dont-want-to-hoe-echoe