# Mr Bones 1.3.3 (Fractal Bovine) **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [February 19, 2008, 12:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mr-bones-1-3-3-fractal-bovine/129487 "2008-02-19T00:12:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2008, 12:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mr-bones-1-3-3-fractal-bovine/129487/1 "2008-02-19T00:12:44Z")
Mr Bones version 1.3.3 by Tim P. [http://codeforpeople.rubyforge.org/bones](http://codeforpeople.rubyforge.org/bones) (the “Fractal Bovine” release) == 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). == CHANGES - 4 minor enhancements - The annotation tags to search for can be specified by the user in the Rakefile - Directory names can be substituted during skeleton creation - Support for the GEM post\_install\_message - Support to generate an announcement text file and send the announcement via e-mail - Added a manifest:assert task that can be used when building the gem to assert that the manifest is up to date task ‘gem:package’ =\> ‘manifest:assert’ - 1 bug fix - Fixed a circular dependency in the gem creation tasks == INSTALL - sudo gem install bones == 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 == FEATURES Mr Bones provides the following rake tasks: ann # Alias to ann:announcement ann:announcement # Create an announcement file ann:email # Send email announcement 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-1.3.3.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 # Alias to manifest:check 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 svn:create\_tag # Create a new tag in the SVN repository svn:show\_tags # Show tags from the SVN repository 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. == 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 == FUN FACT Half of all Americans are below average. == POST SCRIPT Blessings, TwP ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2008, 5:45am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mr-bones-1-3-3-fractal-bovine/129487/2 "2008-02-19T05:45:15Z")
2008/2/19, removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid): > - Directory names can be substituted during skeleton creation > - Support for the GEM post\_install\_message > - Support to generate an announcement text file and send the > announcement via e-mail > Wow! I like it! 🙂 Thank you, Tim!