The project maintainers are responsible for bumping the version number, regenerating auto-generated documentation, tagging the release, and uploading to rubygems.
- Ensure that all changes have been merged to master.
- If necessary, complete a Pull Request to update the version file.
- Ensure the the master branch is checked out on your system.
- Run the release procedure:
rake gem:release
This rake task handles the following:
- Auto-generates the options reference (
rake doc:build) - Build the gem file (
rake gem:build) - Tag the release in the repository (
rake gem:tag) - Upload the gem file to rubygems (
rake gem:push)