newgemsで作成した雛形からパッケージを作ろうとしてエラー

以下のサイトを参考にして、rubygems用のパッケージを作成しています。
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/secondlife/20061106/1162785661
雛形のlib/[app name].rbを編集して
機能を作成後に、パッケージを作成しようとすると、エラーがでました。
そのエラーを回避したのが、以下の記録です

    • 環境
[6941]% ruby -v                                                                                                                 [/usr/ports/devel/subversion]
ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24 patchlevel 111) [amd64-freebsd6]
[6942]% rake --version                                                                                                          [/usr/ports/devel/subversion]
rake, version 0.8.1
[6943]% newgem -v                                                                                                               [/usr/ports/devel/subversion]
newgem 0.16.1
[6944]%            
    • 現象
[ERROR:1]% rake package --trace                                                                                                [/home/utadaq/work/ttt/sample_app]
(in /home/utadaq/work/ttt/sample_app)
rake aborted!
sample_app is not a module
./config/../lib/sample_app/version.rb:1
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `gem_original_require'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `require'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.0.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:496:in `require'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.0.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:342:in `new_constants_in'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.0.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:496:in `require'
./config/hoe.rb:1
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `gem_original_require'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `require'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.0.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:496:in `require'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.0.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:342:in `new_constants_in'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.0.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:496:in `require'
/home/utadaq/work/ttt/sample_app/Rakefile:2
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:2149:in `load'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:2149:in `raw_load_rakefile'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:1897:in `load_rakefile'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:1948:in `standard_exception_handling'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:1896:in `load_rakefile'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:1880:in `run'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:1948:in `standard_exception_handling'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/lib/rake.rb:1878:in `run'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.1/bin/rake:31
/usr/local/bin/rake:16:in `load'
/usr/local/bin/rake:16
    • 原因

モジュールではなく、クラスを作成していた場合、
lib/[app name]/version.rb
のファイルを書き換える必要

#module sample_app #:nodoc: <- ココをコメントアウト
class sample_app #:nodoc:
  module VERSION #:nodoc:
    MAJOR = 0
    MINOR = 0
    TINY  = 1

    STRING = [MAJOR, MINOR, TINY].join('.')
  end
end

コレでパッケージは作られましたが、
この対処が正しいかは自信なし。。。

    • 追記

rubyのmoduleについて、どうもはっきり解ってないんだよなぁ。。。

とか、かなり理解があやふや。