What is the canonical mechanism for creating a Ruby gem?

I've looked in a lot of places - incl开发者_如何学Cuding www.rubygems.org - but can't find any tutorial that describes an easy, straightforward, technique for producing gems that doesn't rely on other (non-standard-Ruby) components, such as newgem and hoe.

I have several requirements for gem production, from the simplest case of one library file+one test file, to complex ones involving C source files and multiple utility .rb files.

All help gratefully received!

I was researching gem making recently and was also surprised that there wasn't a single, obvious way that everyone does it like how RubyGems is the one-stop shop for managing gems. I discovered that you can actually use Bundler to create gems, and I've chosen this route for my own gems. Take a look at this guide on gem development with Bundler by Radar.

look into Jeweler or one of these options: http://ruby-toolbox.com/categories/gem_creation.html

its seems like overkill, but you don't need to use all the options, you can use it just to create the skeleton of the gem.

I've recently been looking into the same thing. Here are a few sources I found useful Walk through of a simple gem, Gem spec reference. Also I found it useful to check out large projects on github and model after them Thor's Gem spec.

Don't know if you've seen "Gemcutter Is The New Official Default RubyGem Host", but it's a good starting point. RubyGems.org is a good second stop to read Creating Your Own Gem.