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Last updated: 24 Feb 2023

govuk_publishing_components: Publishing to RubyGems

Before publishing a new version check the open and approved pull requests and reach out to the authors to see if you can get their work published in the same release.

You should also post a message to #govuk-frontenders on slack to ask if anyone else has a change that they would like to be included in the new version.

  1. Checkout main and pull latest changes.

  2. Create and checkout a new branch (release-[version-number]). The version number is determined by looking at the current "Unreleased" changes in CHANGELOG and updating the previous release number depending on the kind of entries:

  • Breaking changes corresponds to a major (1.X.X) change.
  • New features corresponds to a minor (X.1.X) change.
  • Fixes corresponds to a patch (X.X.1) change.

For example if the previous version is 2.3.0 and there are entries for Breaking changes then the new release should be 3.0.0.

See Semantic Versioning for more information.

  1. Update CHANGELOG.md "Unreleased" heading with the new version number and review the latest commits to make sure the latest changes are correctly reflected in the CHANGELOG.

  2. Update lib/govuk_publishing_components/version.rb version with the new version number.

  3. Run bundle install && yarn install to ensure you have the latest dependencies installed.

  4. Commit changes. These should include updates in the following files:

  1. Create a pull request and copy the changelog text for the current version in the pull request description.

  2. Once the pull request is approved, merge into the main branch. This action will trigger the CI to publish the new version to RubyGems. A dependabot pull request will automatically be raised in frontend applications.

See an example pull request for publishing a new version to RubyGems.