diff --git a/bin/console b/bin/console
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+++ b/bin/console
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+irb -I ./lib -r 'bundler' -r 'rubygems' -r 'db_lock'
diff --git a/bin/release b/bin/release
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+++ b/bin/release
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+#!/bin/bash -le
+
+name="db_lock"
+
+git fetch origin
+current=`bin/version`
+sha=`git rev-parse HEAD`
+
+read -p "Which version? (${current}) " version
+version=${version:=$current}
+
+VERSION=$version gem build ${name}.gemspec
+
+echo "Creating GitHub release"
+link=`gh release create v${version} --target $sha --generate-notes`
+echo $link
+
+file="${name}-${version}.gem"
+read -p "Push to rubygems? (y/n) " yn
+case $yn in
+	y ) echo Pushing to rubygems ...;;
+	n ) echo Aborting.;
+		exit;;
+	* ) echo invalid response;
+		exit 1;;
+esac
+
+gem push $file
+rm $file
+
+open $link
diff --git a/bin/version b/bin/version
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index 0000000..6855835
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+++ b/bin/version
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+#!/bin/bash -le
+
+branch=`git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD`
+version=`git describe --tags --match "v*" | sed -e "s/^v//"`
+ref=`git rev-parse --short HEAD`
+
+# 0.0.0-i-sha or 0.0-i-sha
+if [[ "$version" =~ ^([0-9]+)\.([0-9]+)\.([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)-([a-z0-9]+) ]]; then
+  minor=$((${BASH_REMATCH[3]}+1))
+  version="${BASH_REMATCH[1]}.${BASH_REMATCH[2]}.${minor}.${branch}.${BASH_REMATCH[4]}.$ref"
+elif [[ "$version" =~ ^([0-9]+)\.([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)-([a-z0-9]+) ]]; then
+  minor=1
+  version="${BASH_REMATCH[1]}.${BASH_REMATCH[2]}.${minor}.${branch}.${BASH_REMATCH[3]}.$ref"
+fi
+
+echo $version