What are the steps needed to create and publish a rubygem of your own?

Question

So you\'ve created a ruby library.

How do you create and publish your rubygem? And what common pitfalls and gotchas are there pertaining to creating and publishing r

Answer 1

hoe no longer adds itself as a dependency as off rubygems 1.2. Its rake tasks are focused on deployment of the rubygem to rubyforge. If you just want to serve the gem from github I think there some new hoe-esque rake task tools to help.