diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d53f040
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+name: release
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [master, main]
+    tags: ["*"]
+    paths-ignore: ['**.md']
+  workflow_dispatch: #allows manual trigger
+
+concurrency: production
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: '0'
+      - name: Set up JDK
+        uses: actions/setup-java@v4
+        with:
+          distribution: 'temurin'
+          java-version: '21'
+      - name: Get next release version (dry run)
+        id: taggerDryRun
+        uses: anothrNick/github-tag-action@1.61.0
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          WITH_V: true
+          DRY_RUN: true
+      - name: echo new tag
+        run: |
+          export NEXT_VERSION=${{ steps.taggerDryRun.outputs.new_tag }}
+          echo "The next tag version will be: $NEXT_VERSION"
+      - name: echo tag
+        run: |
+          echo "The current tag is: ${{ steps.taggerDryRun.outputs.tag }}"
+      - name: Compile
+        run: sbt clean stage
+      - name: Generate Ruby Types
+        run: ./standalone --withLanguageFrontend RUBYSRC 
+      - name: Checksum
+        run: sha512sum builtin_types/ruby_builtin_types.zip > builtin_types/ruby_builtin_types.zip.sha512
+      - name: Rename
+        run: |
+          mv builtin_types/ruby_builtin_types.zip rubysrc_builtin_types.zip
+          mv builtin_types/ruby_builtin_types.zip.sha512 rubysrc_builtin_types.zip.sha512
+      - name: Show SHA512
+        run: cat rubysrc_builtin_types.zip.sha512 
+      - name: Set next release version
+        id: taggerFinal
+        uses: anothrNick/github-tag-action@1.61.0
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          WITH_V: true
+      - name: Release
+        uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v1
+        with:
+          tag_name: ${{ steps.taggerDryRun.outputs.new_tag }}
+          files: |
+            rubysrc_builtin_types.zip
+            rubysrc_builtin_types.zip.sha512
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 6bb73fa..67c594f 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -5,3 +5,4 @@ target/
 /joern-inst
 /workspace
 src/main/resources/
+builtin_types/
diff --git a/project/plugins.sbt b/project/plugins.sbt
index 769be48..70d1090 100644
--- a/project/plugins.sbt
+++ b/project/plugins.sbt
@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@ addSbtPlugin("com.dwijnand" % "sbt-dynver" % "4.1.1")
 addSbtPlugin("com.github.sbt"  % "sbt-native-packager"   % "1.9.7")
 addSbtPlugin("io.shiftleft" % "sbt-overflowdb" % "2.104")
 addSbtPlugin("com.eed3si9n" % "sbt-assembly" % "2.1.1")
+addSbtPlugin("io.shiftleft" % "sbt-ci-release-early" % "2.0.19")
diff --git a/src/main/scala/io/joern/typestubs/Main.scala b/src/main/scala/io/joern/typestubs/Main.scala
index 5401728..409ee49 100644
--- a/src/main/scala/io/joern/typestubs/Main.scala
+++ b/src/main/scala/io/joern/typestubs/Main.scala
@@ -8,7 +8,11 @@ object OutputFormat extends Enumeration {
   val json, mpk, zip = Value
 }
 
-final case class Config(format: OutputFormat.Value = OutputFormat.zip, languageFrontend: String = "all") {
+final case class Config(
+  format: OutputFormat.Value = OutputFormat.zip,
+  languageFrontend: String = Frontend.ALL,
+  outputDirectory: String = "./builtin_types"
+) {
 
   def withFormat(value: OutputFormat.Value): Config = {
     copy(format = value)
@@ -17,6 +21,10 @@ final case class Config(format: OutputFormat.Value = OutputFormat.zip, languageF
   def withLanguageFrontend(value: String): Config = {
     copy(languageFrontend = value)
   }
+
+  def withOutputDirectory(value: String): Config = {
+    copy(outputDirectory = value)
+  }
 }
 
 private object Frontend {
@@ -45,7 +53,10 @@ private object Frontend {
             failure(s"Only available languages are: [${availableFrontendLanguages.mkString(", ")}]")
         }
         .text(s"The Frontend Language to generate builtin types for, defaults to `all`: [${availableFrontendLanguages
-                .mkString(",")}]".stripMargin)
+                .mkString(",")}]".stripMargin),
+      opt[String]("output")
+        .action((x, c) => c.withOutputDirectory(x))
+        .text("Directory for type-stubs output")
     )
   }
 }
@@ -70,7 +81,7 @@ object Main {
 
   def run(config: Config): Unit = {
     if config.languageFrontend == Frontend.ALL || config.languageFrontend == Languages.RUBYSRC then
-      val rubyScraper = BuiltinPackageDownloader(format = config.format)
+      val rubyScraper = BuiltinPackageDownloader(outputDir = config.outputDirectory, format = config.format)
       rubyScraper.run()
   }
 }
diff --git a/src/main/scala/io/joern/typestubs/ruby/BuiltinPackageDownloader.scala b/src/main/scala/io/joern/typestubs/ruby/BuiltinPackageDownloader.scala
index c968d38..4143b8a 100644
--- a/src/main/scala/io/joern/typestubs/ruby/BuiltinPackageDownloader.scala
+++ b/src/main/scala/io/joern/typestubs/ruby/BuiltinPackageDownloader.scala
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ case class RubyType(name: String, methods: List[RubyMethod], fields: List[RubyFi
   * @param rubyVersion
   *   \- Ruby version to fetch dependencies for
   */
-class BuiltinPackageDownloader(format: OutputFormat.Value = OutputFormat.zip) {
+class BuiltinPackageDownloader(outputDir: String, format: OutputFormat.Value = OutputFormat.zip) {
   private val logger: Logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(this.getClass)
 
   private val CLASS    = "class"
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ class BuiltinPackageDownloader(format: OutputFormat.Value = OutputFormat.zip) {
   private val browser = JsoupBrowser()
   private val baseUrl = s"https://ruby-doc.org/3.3.0"
 
-  private val baseDir = "src/main/resources/ruby/builtin_types/"
+  private val baseDir = s"$outputDir/ruby_builtin_types"
 
   // Below unicode value calculated with: println("\\u" + Integer.toHexString('→' | 0x10000).substring(1))
   // taken from: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2220366/get-unicode-value-of-a-character
@@ -137,9 +137,10 @@ class BuiltinPackageDownloader(format: OutputFormat.Value = OutputFormat.zip) {
       typesFile.writeByteArray(upack.writeToByteArray(msg))
     }
 
-    logger.debug("[Ruby]: Zipping builtin-type dir")
-    dir.zipTo(destination = File(s"${baseDir}.zip"))
-    dir.delete()
+    if format == OutputFormat.zip then
+      logger.debug("[Ruby]: Zipping builtin-type dir")
+      dir.zipTo(destination = File(s"${baseDir}.zip"))
+      dir.delete()
   }
 
   /** Write RubyTypes to JSON files for debugging a readable format