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Source - https://github.com/driftingruby/099-creating-a-basic-ruby-gem

Summary

Terminal# Create gem template
bundle gem leftpad

# Run specs test
rspec spec

# Build and compress the gem
gem build leftpad.gemspec

# Publish gem to rubygems.org
gem push leftpad-1.2.1.gem

# Install specific gem from local file
gem install leftpad-1.2.1.gem

# Uninstall gem from local source
gem uninstall leftpad

# Install gem from rubygems.org
gem install leftpad

leftpad.gemspec# coding: utf-8
lib = File.expand_path("../lib", __FILE__)
$LOAD_PATH.unshift(lib) unless $LOAD_PATH.include?(lib)
require "leftpad/version"

Gem::Specification.new do |spec|
  spec.name = "leftpad"
  spec.version = Leftpad::VERSION
  spec.authors = ["Dave Kimura"]
  spec.email = ["[email protected]"]

  spec.summary = %q{A gem for left padding text.}
  spec.description = %q{This gem is forever.}
  spec.homepage = "https://www.driftingruby.com/episodes/creating-a-basic-gem"
  spec.license = "MIT"

  spec.files = `git ls-files -z`.split("\x0").reject do |f|
    f.match(%r{^(test|spec|features)/})
  end
  spec.bindir = "exe"
  spec.executables = spec.files.grep(%r{^exe/}) { |f| File.basename(f) }
  spec.require_paths = ["lib"]

  spec.add_development_dependency "bundler", "~> 1.15"
  spec.add_development_dependency "rake", "~> 10.0"
  spec.add_development_dependency "rspec", "~> 3.0"
  # spec.add_dependency "rspec", "~> 3.0"
end

Gemfilesource "https://rubygems.org"

git_source(:github) {|repo_name| "https://github.com/#{repo_name}" }

# Specify your gem's dependencies in leftpad.gemspec
gemspec

lib/leftpad.rbrequire "leftpad/version"

module Leftpad
  def leftpad(chars, filler = ' ')
    self.rjust(chars, filler)
  end
end

class String
  include Leftpad
end

lib/leftpad/version.rbmodule Leftpad
  VERSION = "1.2.2"
end

spec/leftpad_spec.rbrequire "spec_helper"

RSpec.describe Leftpad do
  it "has a version number" do
    expect(Leftpad::VERSION).not_to be nil
  end

  it "leftpad with no padding char" do
    expect('left'.leftpad(8)).to eq(' left')
  end

  it "leftpad with padding char" do
    expect('left'.leftpad(8, '0')).to eq('0000left')
  end

  it "leftpad with fewer padding char" do
    expect('left'.leftpad(2, '0')).to eq('left')
  end
end