ntamvl

How to create a Ruby gem that adds Rake tasks

Create a gem

One way to do this is to use bundler to scaffold our gem:

bundler gem my_gem

Add rake tasks to our gem

I prefer to put tasks meant to manage the gem itself in lib/tasks, and tasks the gem is meant to provide to gem users in lib/my_gem/tasks.

willurd

Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. Use this power wisely.

Discussion on reddit.

Python 2.x

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

happyrobots

# Mac
IO.popen('pbcopy', 'r+') { |clipboard| clipboard.puts html_out }

# Linux
IO.popen(’xsel –clipboard –input’, ‘r+’) { |clipboard| clipboard.puts html_out }