# Mr Bones

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mr-bones/189796>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [June 8, 2010, 12:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mr-bones/189796 "2010-06-08T00:11:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![timperrett](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@timperrett](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/timperrett)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 12:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mr-bones/189796/1 "2010-06-08T00:11:50Z")

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Mr Bones is a collection of rake tasks and a ruby command line  
application for creating projects from templates and building / testing  
/ releasing those projects. It is similar to Hoe and Jeweler.

If you find yourself hacking on a project that is using Mr Bones, you  
can get your development environment up and running quickly with these  
two steps:

gem install bones  
rake gem:install\_dependencies

The “install\_dependencies” rake task is provided by Mr Bones. It looks  
at the dependencies required to do development work on the project  
you’re hacking. If some of those dependencies are missing, it will  
download and install the needed gems.

Thanks for reading this [protip].

Tim P. – author of Mr Bones –

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**Author:** ![timperrett](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@timperrett](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/timperrett)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 1:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mr-bones/189796/2 "2010-06-09T01:31:40Z")

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On Jun 7, 2010, at 3:11 PM, Tim P. wrote:

> Thanks for reading this [protip].
> 
> Tim P. – author of Mr Bones –

+1 for Tim’s gem!

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**Author:** ![timperrett](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@timperrett](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/timperrett)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 2:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mr-bones/189796/3 "2010-06-09T02:27:51Z")

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steve ross wrote:

> +1 for Tim’s gem!

Ditto!

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**Author:** ![timperrett](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@timperrett](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/timperrett)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 3:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mr-bones/189796/4 "2010-06-09T03:23:28Z")

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steve ross wrote:

> +1 for Tim’s gem!

Mr. Bones is Mr. Badass.

Tim really should have called it Mr. T.

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