Releaser

Very often we need to monitor versions of application. This gem helps to do it.

Installation

Add

ruby gem 'releaser'

to your Gemfile.

Autoreleasing

When issuing major release, run releaser major NEW_CODENAME. You may omit the codename if you are not using any. This will tag a commit and push the tag to origin. You have --no-push option not to do the last step. Running it with -p will issue it in "pretend" mode, without actual making changes.

To issue a minor release, you should run releaser minor. It has the same options as major, except the codename.

To get the current version just type release. Try -v for more verbosity.

Capistrano

Add

require 'releaser/capistrano'

to your config/deploy.rb file. This will automagically tag your deploy commits and push it. Also it will write current revision to the file CURRENT_VERSION in your application directory. To get it from application, issue

Releaser::FromFile.new.version("no version")

with an optional argument for a default string (default is "development").

See lib/releaser/capistrano/release_tagging for more details.