# Making a gem

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/making-a-gem/139902>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [June 8, 2008, 10:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/making-a-gem/139902 "2008-06-08T22:49:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![leslieviljoen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@leslieviljoen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/leslieviljoen)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2008, 10:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/making-a-gem/139902/1 "2008-06-08T22:49:56Z")

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Hello!

I’d like to release a Gem on Rubyforge and I need some help.

I have created most of my project using Hoe and the gem builds and  
installs locally  
properly. When I try to release though (rake release VERSION=1.0.0), I  
get :

rake aborted!  
no \<group\_id\> configured for

I assume this is because I need a config.yml in my ~/.rubyforge  
directory with group id’s etc.  
From a “hoetalk.pdf” that I found, an example shows:

* * *

rubyforge:  
release\_ids:  
amazon-hacks:  
0.5.0: 8743  
group\_ids:  
amazon-hacks: 2731  
package\_ids:  
amazon-hacks: 3223

…I can set up such a file, but where do I get all these id’s?  
After that, how do I inform the ‘rubyforge’ program that this file  
exists?

rake check\_manifest gives me:  
(in /home/lesliev/dev/mygems/glader)  
�����\�exclude entry missing from .hoerc. Aborting.

…for which google turns up nothing.

Les

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**Author:** ![leslieviljoen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@leslieviljoen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/leslieviljoen)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2008, 1:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/making-a-gem/139902/2 "2008-06-09T01:18:57Z")

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Leslie V. wrote:

> …I can set up such a file, but where do I get all these id’s?  
> After that, how do I inform the ‘rubyforge’ program that this file  
> exists?

Run the following:

rubyforge --config

You should be all set.

- Drew

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**Author:** ![leslieviljoen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@leslieviljoen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/leslieviljoen)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2008, 8:17am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/making-a-gem/139902/3 "2008-06-09T08:17:27Z")

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On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 1:17 AM, Drew O. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Leslie V. wrote:
> 
> > …I can set up such a file, but where do I get all these id’s?  
> > After that, how do I inform the ‘rubyforge’ program that this file  
> > exists?
> 
> Run the following:
> 
> rubyforge --config
> 
> You should be all set.

I did that and it created a user-config.yml file in ~/.rubyforge with  
these contents:

* * *

uri: [http://rubyforge.org](http://rubyforge.org)  
is\_private: false  
username: lesliev  
cookie\_jar: /home/lesliev/.rubyforge/cookie.dat  
password: makeGems

…but now when I try to release my gem:

lesliev@lesliev-laptop:~/dev/mygems/glader$ rake release VERSION=1.0.0  
(in /home/lesliev/dev/mygems/glader)  
�����\�tar zcvf glader-1.0.0.tgz glader-1.0.0  
glader-1.0.0/  
glader-1.0.0/Manifest.txt  
glader-1.0.0/README.txt  
glader-1.0.0/test/  
glader-1.0.0/test/test\_glader.rb  
glader-1.0.0/lib/  
glader-1.0.0/lib/glader.rb  
glader-1.0.0/bin/  
glader-1.0.0/bin/glader  
glader-1.0.0/History.txt  
glader-1.0.0/Rakefile  
Successfully built RubyGem  
Name: glader  
Version: 1.0.0  
File: glader-1.0.0.gem  
Logging in  
Releasing glader v. 1.0.0  
rake aborted!  
no \<group\_id\> configured for

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**Author:** ![leslieviljoen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@leslieviljoen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/leslieviljoen)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2008, 10:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/making-a-gem/139902/4 "2008-06-09T22:58:42Z")

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On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 8:15 AM, Leslie V. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
wrote:

> > You should be all set.
> 
> glader-1.0.0/lib/  
> Releasing glader v. 1.0.0  
> rake aborted!  
> no \<group\_id\> configured for

I figured this out, for anyone else who’s looking. You need to create  
the project on Rubyforge itself before you can use the release  
command. After “rubyforge names” shows your project, you can “rake  
release”.

Les