Be awesome: write your .gemspec yourself

Be awesome: write your .gemspec yourself - Jeff Kreeftmeijer:

A lot of people are still using (tools like) Jeweler, which is fine. I would like to ask you to take a look at a simple .gemspec file sometime and ask yourself if this would more difficult to write and maintain than a Rakefile specifying the exact same thing. I feel like a lot of people are using Jeweler because everyone did it when they started and haven’t looked back since.

Full article: http://jeffkreeftmeijer.com/2010/be-awesome-write-your-ge...