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So I'm finally getting around to learning how to package
a gem with rake, and I've found that in addition to Chad's
wonderful Pickaxe writeup, looking at other people's Rakefiles
has been a great help.

However, at least one question still lingers:

In Rake's Rakefile, I am puzzled by why lines 176-179 are
not replaced by s.rdoc_options=rd.options similar to
the way s.extra_rdoc_files=rd.rdoc_files is done on the
line before -- see

http://rubyforge.org/plugins/scmsvn/...1.73&root=rake

Jim, in case you read this, there is a typo in the
the header comments -> "is may be"?

FWIW, it took me forever to figure out that I needed to use

rake package

to get rake to spit out all three types of packages I had
requested; Chad's Pickaxe writeup only has an explicit-
target example, so I was doing,

rake pkg/fUnit-0.0.1.gem
rake pkg/fUnit-0.0.1.tgz
rake pkg/fUnit-0.0.1.zip

If you want to take a look at my current Rakefile mess,
and offer patches, see

http://rubyforge.org/plugins/scmsvn/...it&view=markup

Thanks,
--
Bil
http://fun3d.larc.nasa.gov

To make life a bit easier you might like to know about Reap.

http://reap.rubyforge.org

Current version is still a little rough around the edges (I've recently
added 3 spanking new features) but most of those will be ironed out
soon. I use it all the time, so if you have any questions I'm readiy
available.

T.

Trans wrote:
> To make life a bit easier you might like to know about Reap.
>
> http://reap.rubyforge.org

Life so far hasn't been too hard, but I'll take a gander...

Thanks,
--
Bil
http://fun3d.larc.nasa.gov