# Publishing to rubyforge - is there a command line tool that

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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [April 18, 2006, 10:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/publishing-to-rubyforge-is-there-a-command-line-tool-that/58138 "2006-04-18T22:05:21Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 10:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/publishing-to-rubyforge-is-there-a-command-line-tool-that/58138/1 "2006-04-18T22:05:21Z")

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I was trying to use the rake contrib task for publishing to Rubyforge,  
but  
it seems to use a command line component to do the work (which I don’t  
seem  
to have 🙂 I believe this was contributed by Florian G… Does anyone  
know where I get this extra piece to make this all work?

What do people use to automate their uploads to Rubyforge? Is this  
publish  
task the best way? I have many files to post each time.

All suggestions are welcome.

Thanks,

Jeff

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**Author:** ![jbell38](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/edb3f5/32.png) [@jbell38](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jbell38)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 10:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/publishing-to-rubyforge-is-there-a-command-line-tool-that/58138/2 "2006-04-18T22:17:39Z")

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On 4/18/06, Jeff B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> I was trying to use the rake contrib task for publishing to Rubyforge, but  
> it seems to use a command line component to do the work (which I don’t seem  
> to have 🙂 I believe this was contributed by Florian G… Does anyone  
> know where I get this extra piece to make this all work?
> 
> What do people use to automate their uploads to Rubyforge? Is this publish  
> task the best way? I have many files to post each time.

You can see what I do for PDF::Writer (and my other projects) in the  
Rakefile there. I use metaproject.

-austin

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**Author:** ![jbell38](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/edb3f5/32.png) [@jbell38](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jbell38)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 11:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/publishing-to-rubyforge-is-there-a-command-line-tool-that/58138/3 "2006-04-18T23:25:49Z")

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Thanks Austin, that looks like that will work well and appears to have  
more  
functionality than the other way, including posting the news items and  
sending emails. Thank you for the pointer.

Jeff

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**Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 3:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/publishing-to-rubyforge-is-there-a-command-line-tool-that/58138/4 "2006-04-19T03:12:20Z")

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On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Jeff B. wrote:

> Thanks Austin, that looks like that will work well and appears to have more  
> functionality than the other way, including posting the news items and  
> sending emails. Thank you for the pointer.
> 
> Jeff

fyi. i wrote and use this

[http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group\_id=1024&release\_id=4283](http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=1024&release_id=4283)

it installs a rubyforge script which can be used to automate rubyforge  
uploads. i don’t know how it compares to austin’s approach but it’s  
very  
simple.

regards.

-a

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**Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 4:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/publishing-to-rubyforge-is-there-a-command-line-tool-that/58138/5 "2006-04-19T16:10:10Z")

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On 4/18/06, removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> it installs a rubyforge script which can be used to automate rubyforge  
> uploads. i don’t know how it compares to austin’s approach but it’s very  
> simple.

The main difference, as I recall, is that you have a lot of hardcoded  
values in your code. Metaproject may have those hardcoded values as  
well, but they are well hidden from me, the user.

Florian G. has also written a similar program.

-austin