[QPID-4567] Switch Ruby packaging from Rakefile to gemspec

• Type: Task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.21
• Component/s: Ruby Client
• Assignee: Darryl Pierce
• Reporter: Darryl Pierce
• Created: 05/Feb/13 13:40
• Updated: 29/Jul/13 19:06
• Resolved: 07/Feb/13 15:50

Description

Currently the packaging is done via a Rakefile. However, the various parts of Rake have turned into a moving target with incompatible changes. So for packaging the gems we should move packaging to use a gemspec instead.

In the process, we can also dispose of the Qpid::Messaging::Version class which is not used by anything except the Rakefile. We can instead set the version directly in the gemspec file.