From d8c7deb43d1a53ab491ae4126c0745a80e29a482 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jerry Cheung <jch@whatcodecraves.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 22:20:14 -0800
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] notes on how to release a gem

---
 README.md | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index fe0df7ce..6512baef 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -281,6 +281,23 @@ bundle
 rake test
 ```
 
+## Releasing a new version
+
+This section is for gem maintainers to cut a new version of the gem.
+
+* update lib/html/pipeline/version.rb to next version number X.X.X following [semver](http://semver.org).
+* update CHANGELOG.md. Get latest changes with `git log --oneline vLAST_RELEASE..HEAD | grep Merge`
+* on the master branch, run:
+
+```sh
+$ git commit -m "bump vX.X.X"
+$ git tag vX.X.X
+$ git push origin master
+$ git push --tags
+$ gem build html-pipeline.gemspec
+$ gem push html-pipeline-X.X.X.gem
+```
+
 ## Contributing
 
 1. [Fork it](https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo)

From 79176f6ee7918a6f86a34c13f63fc0d019a7fa1e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jerry Cheung <jch@whatcodecraves.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 09:47:18 -0800
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] release script cc @pengwynn

---
 README.md      | 11 +----------
 script/package |  7 +++++++
 script/release | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
 create mode 100755 script/package
 create mode 100755 script/release

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 6512baef..23742bc9 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -287,16 +287,7 @@ This section is for gem maintainers to cut a new version of the gem.
 
 * update lib/html/pipeline/version.rb to next version number X.X.X following [semver](http://semver.org).
 * update CHANGELOG.md. Get latest changes with `git log --oneline vLAST_RELEASE..HEAD | grep Merge`
-* on the master branch, run:
-
-```sh
-$ git commit -m "bump vX.X.X"
-$ git tag vX.X.X
-$ git push origin master
-$ git push --tags
-$ gem build html-pipeline.gemspec
-$ gem push html-pipeline-X.X.X.gem
-```
+* on the master branch, run `script/release`
 
 ## Contributing
 
diff --git a/script/package b/script/package
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..926f4891
--- /dev/null
+++ b/script/package
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Usage: script/gem
+# Updates the gemspec and builds a new gem in the pkg directory.
+
+mkdir -p pkg
+gem build *.gemspec
+mv *.gem pkg
diff --git a/script/release b/script/release
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..6dcd8cb3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/script/release
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Usage: script/release
+# Build the package, tag a commit, push it to origin, and then release the
+# package publicly.
+
+set -e
+
+version="$(script/package | grep Version: | awk '{print $2}')"
+[ -n "$version" ] || exit 1
+
+echo $version
+git commit --allow-empty -a -m "Release $version"
+git tag "v$version"
+git push origin
+git push origin "v$version"
+gem push pkg/*-${version}.gem