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

I actually wrote a tutorial on exactly this, and I wrote it as I was learning. It's more focused on the game I'd written than a library. Also, it assumes you want to build the gem via rake rather than on your own:

• Part 1 on how to create the gem.
• Part 2 on how to run binaries installed by your gem, and get to resources.