Start the appengine-tools gem

Rakefile

+require 'rubygems'
+require 'rake/gempackagetask'
+require 'rubygems/specification'
+require 'date'
+require 'spec/rake/spectask'
+
+GEM = "appengine-tools"
+GEM_VERSION = "0.0.1"
+AUTHOR = "Ryan Brown"
+EMAIL = "ribrdb@gmail.com"
+HOMEPAGE = "http://code.google.com/p/appengine-jruby"
+SUMMARY = "Tools for developing and deploying apps to Google App Engine"
+
+spec = Gem::Specification.new do |s|
+  s.name = GEM
+  s.version = GEM_VERSION
+  s.platform = Gem::Platform::RUBY
+  s.has_rdoc = true
+  s.extra_rdoc_files = ["README.rdoc", "LICENSE"]
+  s.summary = SUMMARY
+  s.description = s.summary
+  s.author = AUTHOR
+  s.email = EMAIL
+  s.homepage = HOMEPAGE
+  
+  s.require_path = 'lib'
+  s.files = %w(LICENSE README.rdoc Rakefile) + Dir.glob("{lib,spec}/**/*")
+end
+
+task :default => :spec
+
+desc "Run specs"
+Spec::Rake::SpecTask.new do |t|
+  t.spec_files = FileList['spec/**/*_spec.rb']
+  t.spec_opts = %w(-fs --color)
+end
+
+
+Rake::GemPackageTask.new(spec) do |pkg|
+  pkg.gem_spec = spec
+end
+
+desc "install the gem locally"
+task :install => [:package] do
+  sh %{sudo gem install pkg/#{GEM}-#{GEM_VERSION}}
+end
+
+desc "create a gemspec file"
+task :make_spec do
+  File.open("#{GEM}.gemspec", "w") do |file|
+    file.puts spec.to_ruby
+  end
+end