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s.files = Dir["lib/**/*"] + ["MIT-LICENSE", "Rakefile", "README.rdoc"]
This line will only include files from the lib directory, as well as the MIT-LICENSE, Rakefile,
and README.rdoc files. But you’ve got much more than that in your application,
such as the app folder for starters! To fix this little problem, you’ll replace that line
with this one:
s.files = `git ls-files`.split("\n")
This will add all the files that have been added to your Git repository to the gem.
When you run rake build again, it will create your gem with all the files.
You’ll also need to set up some authors for your gem, which you can do by putting
this line underneath s.version in the forem.gemspec:
s.authors = ["youremail@example.com"]
The next task you can run is rake install. This can be run without having rake
build first, as it will run the build code first, then install. This will actually install the
gem onto your system so that you can use it. That’s all well and good, but you want to
show off your stuff to the world!
That’s what rake release is for. This command will create a git tag for your current
commit, then call git push to push your changes online. Next, it will call gem
push, which will publish your gem to http://rubygems.org. You may have to set up an
account on RubyGems.org first, though.
Once this is done, your gem is released out into the world as version 0.0.1. To
bump the version, you need only to alter this line in your-name-forem.gemspec:
s.version = "0.0.1"
It’s sensible to increment the last part of this number for minor corrections, such as
typos or bug fixes, the middle part for minor breaking changes and additional feature
releases, and the major version for major breaking changes or to represent the solidifying
of the API.
With your gem now live and out there, you can use it in your application. Exciting
times!
17.9 Integrating with an application
Now you get to the best part of this chapter: linking Ticketee, your Rails application
that you’ve built throughout the earlier chapters of this book, to the engine that you
have just written, forem. This is a pretty easy process.
The first thing you’re going to need is to add forem to your application’s Gemfile
with this line:
gem 'your-name-forem', :require => "forem"
Then you’ll need to run bundle install to install the gem. To install the migrations
for this gem, you’ll need to run this command:
rake forem:install:migrations
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