Rake::Manifest

Rake tasks to generate and check a manifest file

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'rake-manifest'

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install rake-manifest

Add something like the following to your Rakefile:

Rake::Manifest::Task.new do |t|
  t.patterns = ["{docs,examples,lib}/**/*", "LICENSE.txt"] # Default is ["**/*"]
  t.manifest_file = "MyManifest.txt" # Default is "Manifest.txt"
end

This will create the tasks manifest:generate and manifest:check.

Next, run manifest:generate to create your manifest file, and check it into source control.

To use the manifest file, use something like the following in your gemspec:

  spec.files = File.read("Manifest.txt").split

You can use manifest:check to see if any files are not in the manifest. If you have a task for building your gem, you can make it depend on manifest:check. This will avoid building the gem with incorrect contents. For example, if you're using the Bundler gem tasks, add this to your Rakefile:

task build: "manifest:check"

After checking out the repo, run bundle to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/mvz/rake-manifest.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.