This document describes workflows currently used for various tasks (and other shenanigans if necessary). I try to follow this git flow.
To test:
rspec spec/*_spec.rb
To create a hotfix:
git checkout master
git checkout -b hotfix-VERSION
#Edit lib/ticgit-ng/version.rb to bump the version number
#Apply your changes
git checkout master
git merge --no-ff hotfix-VERSION
git tag VERSION
To create a gem:
gem build ticgit-ng.gemspec
This produces TicGit-ng-VERSION.gem
.
To push the gem, you would do gem push TicGit-ng-VERSION.gem
but this would require an account on Rubygems, and would also require renaming the gem due to namespace conflicts.
I'm a firm believer in testing. If you are submitting a patch or pull request, please do your absolute best to include a test. I will write the test myself if I can, but this increases the time it takes to get the patch included and published. In some circumstances it is fine to not include a patch, eg difficult to test problems.