# Mr Bones - 1.2.0

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**Post date:** [January 1, 2008, 6:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mr-bones-1-2-0/124692/1 "2008-01-01T06:01:11Z")

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Mr Bones  
by Tim P.  
[http://codeforpeople.rubyforge.org/bones](http://codeforpeople.rubyforge.org/bones)

== NEW STUFF

You can now freeze the default Mr Bones project skeleton and add your  
own modifications, files, rake tasks, etc. When you use the “bones”  
command to create a new project, this custom project skeleton will be  
used (instead of the default Mr Bones project skeleton).

Please see the Mr Bones manual for more information.  
[http://codeforpeople.rubyforge.org/bones](http://codeforpeople.rubyforge.org/bones)

== DESCRIPTION:

Mr Bones is a handy tool that builds a skeleton for your new Ruby  
projects.  
The skeleton contains some starter code and a collection of rake tasks  
to  
ease the management and deployment of your source code. Mr Bones is not  
viral – all the code your project needs is included in the skeleton (no  
gem dependency required).

== FEATURES/PROBLEMS:

Mr Bones provides the following rake tasks:

clobber # Remove all build products  
doc # Alias to doc:rdoc  
doc:rdoc # Build the rdoc HTML Files  
doc:release # Publish RDoc to RubyForge  
doc:rerdoc # Force a rebuild of the RDOC files  
doc:ri # Generate ri locally for testing  
gem # Alias to gem:package  
gem:debug # Show information about the gem  
gem:gem # Build the gem file bones-1.2.0.gem  
gem:install # Install the gem  
gem:package # Build all the packages  
gem:release # Package and upload to RubyForge  
gem:repackage # Force a rebuild of the package files  
gem:uninstall # Uninstall the gem  
manifest:check # Verify the manifest  
manifest:create # Create a new manifest  
notes # Enumerate all annotations  
notes:fixme # Enumerate all FIXME annotations  
notes:optimize # Enumerate all OPTIMIZE annotations  
notes:todo # Enumerate all TODO annotations  
spec # Alias to spec:run  
spec:rcov # Run all specs with RCov  
spec:run # Run all specs with basic output  
spec:specdoc # Run all specs with text output  
test # Alias to test:run  
test:rcov # Run rcov on the unit tests  
test:run # Run tests for run

The rake tasks in the Mr Bones framework can be found in the “tasks”  
directory. Add your own tasks there when you need more functionality.

== SYNOPSIS:

To create a new “Get Fuzzy” project:

bones get\_fuzzy

If a new release of Mr Bones comes out with better features the “Get  
Fuzzy”  
project will need to be updated:

bones --update get\_fuzzy

And if you ever get confused about what Mr Bones can do:

bones --help

== REQUIREMENTS:

Mr Bones does not have any “requirements”, but if you do not have the  
following gems installed you will not get all that Mr Bones has to  
offer.

- rubyforge - for easy gem publishing to [rubyforge.org](http://rubyforge.org)
- rcov - for code coverage testing
- rspec - if that’s the way you roll

== INSTALL:

- sudo gem install bones

See the Mr Bones webpage for more information and a little manual.  
[http://codeforpeople.rubyforge.org/bones](http://codeforpeople.rubyforge.org/bones)

Blessings,  
TwP