Echoe
A Rubygems packaging tool that provides Rake tasks for documentation, extension compiling, testing, and deployment.
== License
Copyright 2007-2011 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.
== 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 rubygems.org is configured locally and your password is correctly set.
== Project configuration
Organize your gem according to the usual structure:
lib/
README
LICENSE
CHANGELOG
Rakefile
You can add the <tt>bin/</tt> or <tt>ext/</tt> folders if you have executables or extensions, respectively.
Your <tt>CHANGELOG</tt> 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 <tt>Rakefile</tt> 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:
* <tt>manifest</tt> - Build a manifest list. Shows added and removed files.
* <tt>docs</tt> - Build the documentation.
* <tt>package</tt> - Build all the packages.
Testing:
* <tt>test</tt> - Run the test suite.
* <tt>coverage</tt> - Generate a coverage report.
* <tt>compile</tt> - Compile C extensions, if available.
* <tt>clean</tt> - Clean up generated documentation, packaging, and build files.
* <tt>install</tt> - Install the gem locally.
* <tt>uninstall</tt> - Uninstall the gem.
Upload:
* <tt>publish_docs</tt> - Publish documentation to the web.
* <tt>release</tt> - Package and upload the latest release to rubygems.org.
== Reporting problems
The support forum is here[http://github.com/fauna/echoe/issues].
Patches and contributions are very welcome. Please note that contributors are required to assign copyright for their additions to Cloudburst, LLC.