# Mr Bones 2.3.0 (Calcaneus)

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**Created:** [January 26, 2009, 5:37am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mr-bones-2-3-0-calcaneus/158633 "2009-01-26T05:37:46Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 26, 2009, 5:37am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mr-bones-2-3-0-calcaneus/158633/1 "2009-01-26T05:37:46Z")

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Mr Bones version 2.3.0  
by Tim P.  
[http://codeforpeople.rubyforge.org/bones](http://codeforpeople.rubyforge.org/bones)  
(the “Calcaneus” 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

- 1 minor enhancement
  - removed the need for a Manifest.txt file

Instead, you can create a .bnsignore file (following the format of a  
.gitignore file) that contains a list of files, directories, and  
patterns  
that Mr Bones should ignore. These files will never be included in a gem  
release of your project.

Alternatively, you can use an existing .gitignore file by specifying it  
in  
your Rakefile:

PROJ.ignore\_file = ‘.gitignore’

== 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

== 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:spec # Write the gemspec  
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  
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%  
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
- facets - for pretty colors

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

== FUN FACT

Twenty-five percent of a human’s bones are in its feet.

== POST SCRIPT

Blessings,  
TwP