Release Ruby Gem to GitHub Packages

This action builds the gems for all .gemspec files in the projects root and uploads them to GitHub Packages (or optionally specify a subdirectory to build from).

Usage

Example minimal workflow using this action:

name: CI

on: [push]

jobs:
  build:

    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    permissions:
      packages: write
      contents: read

    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
    - name: Build and publish gem
      uses: jstastny/publish-gem-to-github@master
      with:
        token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        owner: jstastny

See example project using this action at https://github.com/jstastny/testgem.

Inputs

Name	Description
token	GitHub token that has write access to Packages. You can use secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN
owner	Name of the user or organization account that owns the repository containing your project
working-directory	Optional parameter of the directory where you wish to build your gemspecs in (defaults to root)
permissions	Default value for packages in permissions is read only, You need to set it to write

Versioning your gem

This action currently does not bump the gem's version when building it. It is up to you to do it (either manually or in a previous workflow step). If you try to release gem in the same version that already exists, the step will fail.

In case you want to ignore these types of failures, you can add:

continue-on-error: true

to the build step configuration.