# Mr Bones 2.1.0 (Palimpsest)

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Mr Bones version 2.1.0  
by Tim P.  
[http://codeforpeople.rubyforge.org/bones](http://codeforpeople.rubyforge.org/bones)  
(the “Palimpsest” 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

With my Mr Bones projects, I found myself constantly updating the tasks  
as new  
versions of Mr Bones were released. This quickly became annoying. Why  
not use  
the tasks from the Mr Bones gem and only copy those tasks to my own  
projects  
when they are packaged and released? That is the goal of this release of  
Mr  
Bones.

Version 2.1.0 of Mr Bones allows your projects to use the rake tasks  
found  
in the Mr Bones gem but still remain independent from Mr Bones when  
deployed. This is accomplished by copying the rake tasks into your  
project  
only when it is packaged into a gem (or zip file or tarball).

You still have the option of copy the tasks to your local project when  
it is  
created. Or you can add tasks to your project at a later time.

So, if you have an exsiting project and you want to use the Mr Bones  
tasks,  
simply delete your “tasks” folder and put the following at the top of  
your  
Rakefile:

begin  
require ‘bones’  
Bones.setup  
rescue LoadError  
load ‘tasks/setup.rb’ # this line should already be there  
end

- 1 major enhancement
  - tasks can be used from the bones gem without having to create a  
“tasks” folder in each project you create

- 2 minor enhancements
  - revmoved SVN $Id$ turds
  - Mr Bones is now included by default as a development dependency

- 1 bug fix
  - changed the namespacing for the facets ANSICode class

== INSTALL

- sudo gem install bones

== SYNOPSIS

To create a new “Get Fuzzy” project:

bones get\_fuzzy

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 an email announcement  
bones:debug # Show the PROJ open struct  
clean # Remove any temporary products.  
clobber # Remove any generated file.  
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:cleanup # Cleanup the gem  
gem:debug # Show information about the gem  
gem:install # Install the gem  
gem:package # Build all the packages  
gem:reinstall # Reinstall the gem  
gem:release # Package and upload to RubyForge  
gem:repackage # Force a rebuild of the package files  
gem:uninstall # Uninstall the gem  
git:create\_tag # Create a new tag in the Git repository  
git:show\_tags # Show tags from the Git repository  
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  
spec:verify # Verify that rcov coverage is at least 90.0%  
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
- facets - for pretty colors

== FUN FACT

A hen will lay one egg every 24 to 48 hours.

== POST SCRIPT

Blessings,  
TwP