Releasing gems is subtlety different to an application. Especially when sharing it with the wider world, want to be a good citizen and not cause too much grief to others, dependency management is hard enough as it is.

Good write up here by Katz,...

gem install jeweler

git config --global github.user autotelik

jeweler interact

cd interact

edit README

edit Rakefile and set gem details, name etc

rake version:write  (rake version:bump:patch, rake version:bump:minor , rake version:bump:major...

There seems to be some major issues with working with both Rails 3 and Rails 2.xx versions on same box/ruby install.

When going back to work with some 2.3 Rails apps new versions of Rubygems causes havoc with gem loading.

Not sure there...