# Mr Bones 2.2.0 (Distal Phalanges)

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Mr Bones version 2.2.0  
by Tim P.  
[http://codeforpeople.rubyforge.org/bones](http://codeforpeople.rubyforge.org/bones)  
(the “Distal Phalanges” 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
  - projects can be instantiated from git or svn repositories
  - added a task to generate a project gemspec for use on github [Sandro  
Turriate]
  - Mr Bones erb translation is now applied to files with a  
‘.bns’ extension instead of an ‘.erb’ extension
  - refactored the main bones application

- 1 bugfix
  - Mr Bones tasks are only added to the gemspec when a package  
is being built

You can instantiate a new project from a git or svn repository. For  
example,  
if you would like to use the “bort” rails template from github, you can  
type  
in the following:

bones create --repository git://github.com/fudgestudios/bort.git foo

Typing in the full path to the repository each time is tedious. You can  
create an alias by freezing the repository and giving it an easy to  
remember  
name.

bones freeze --repository git://github.com/fudgestudios/bort.git bort

This does not checkout a copy of the repository; it give us an easy to  
use  
alias when we want to create a new proejct based on the repository. The  
following command will use our new alias to instantiate a new project  
called  
“foo”:

bones create --skeleton bort foo

If the repository contains ‘.bns’ files they will be filtered through  
the  
ERb templating system. All the custom modifications described in the  
next  
section apply to repository based skeletons as well.

== INSTALL

- sudo gem install bones

== SYNOPSIS

To create a new “Get Fuzzy” project:

bones create get\_fuzzy

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
- facets - for pretty colors

Actually, you will need at least version 1.2.0 of rubygems installed to  
use  
Mr Bones.

== FUN FACT

“Tom Sawyer” was the first novel written on a typewriter.

== POST SCRIPT

Blessings,  
TwP