release: publish rubyforge news post

Otherwise we'd keep forgetting and users would not know
about us.

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Rakefile b/Rakefile
index a400bc3..1f7297b 100644
--- a/Rakefile
+++ b/Rakefile
@@ -105,8 +105,21 @@ end
 desc "read news article from STDIN and post to rubyforge"
 task :publish_news do
   require 'rubyforge'
-  IO.select([STDIN], nil, nil, 1) or abort "E: news must be read from stdin"
-  msg = STDIN.readlines
+  spec = Gem::Specification.load('raindrops.gemspec')
+  tmp = Tempfile.new('rf-news')
+  _, subject, body = `git cat-file tag v#{spec.version}`.split(/\n\n/, 3)
+  tmp.puts subject
+  tmp.puts
+  tmp.puts spec.description.strip
+  tmp.puts ""
+  tmp.puts "* #{spec.homepage}"
+  tmp.puts "* #{spec.email}"
+  tmp.puts "* #{git_url}"
+  tmp.print "\nChanges:\n\n"
+  tmp.puts body
+  tmp.flush
+  system(ENV["VISUAL"], tmp.path) or abort "#{ENV["VISUAL"]} failed: #$?"
+  msg = File.readlines(tmp.path)
   subject = msg.shift
   blank = msg.shift
   blank == "\n" or abort "no newline after subject!"