action-release-gem

Release your gem automatically.

Create a tag on your github repository in GitHub
Build a gem and push to rubygems.org

Usage

# .github/workflows/release_gem.yml
on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master

jobs:
  build:
    name: Build + Publish
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@master

      # Require ruby to execute gem command
      - name: Set up Ruby 2.6
        uses: actions/setup-ruby@v1
        with:
          version: 2.6.x

      - name: Create a tag and release to rubygems.org
        uses: nowlinuxing/action-release-gem@v1
        env:
          GEM_HOST_API_KEY: ${{secrets.RUBYGEMS_AUTH_TOKEN}}
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN}}

$ git add lib/yourgem/version.rb
$ git commit -m 'Bump version'
$ git push origin master

Code in Master

Install the dependencies

$ npm install

Build the typescript

$ npm run build

Run the tests ✔️

$ npm test

Publish to a distribution branch

Actions are run from GitHub repos. We will create a releases branch and only checkin production modules (core in this case).

Comment out node_modules in .gitignore and create a releases/v1 branch

# comment out in distribution branches
# node_modules/

$ git checkout -b releases/v1
$ git commit -a -m "prod dependencies"

$ npm prune --production
$ git add node_modules
$ git commit -a -m "prod dependencies"
$ git push origin releases/v1

Your action is now published! 🚀

See the versioning documentation

Validate

You can now validate the action by referencing the releases/v1 branch

uses: actions/action-release-gem@releases/v1

See the actions tab for runs of this action! 🚀

Usage:

After testing you can create a v1 tag to reference the stable and tested action

uses: actions/action-release-gem@v1