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+# Minimal gem tasks for rubygems/release-gem, which runs `rake build` then
+# `rake release`. Hand-rolled because bundler/gem_tasks' release task also
+# creates and pushes a git tag, which conflicts with the existing v* tags
+# this repo cuts for the maps release artifacts.
+task :build do
+  sh "gem build interscript-maps.gemspec"
+end
+
+task release: :build do
+  gem_file = Dir["interscript-maps-*.gem"].sort.last
+  sh "gem push #{gem_file}"
+end