# Re: The Well Tempered Ruby Application

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-the-well-tempered-ruby-application/68707>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [September 14, 2006, 6:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-the-well-tempered-ruby-application/68707 "2006-09-14T18:15:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![phrogz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/2acd7d/32.png) [@phrogz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/phrogz)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2006, 6:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-the-well-tempered-ruby-application/68707/1 "2006-09-14T18:15:19Z")

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From: Tim B. [[mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)]

> I’ve been starting to put together a small sample project like GNU’s  
> “Hello” ([Hello - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation](http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/)) that provides just the  
> framework of everything that a well behaved Ruby project should  
> contain. The project should serve a dual role of providing a template  
> for new projects and as a tutorial.  
> […]  
> I appreciate your feedback, thanks,

Not specifically the feedback you might have been looking for, but I  
give you a hearty “awesome!” as my feedback.

I’ve done a few projects in the past for community consumption and ended  
up just releasing random files on my website because I didn’t have the  
sort of project you are talking about as a guide for how to ‘properly’  
put it all together. I’m working on another such project now and will be  
grateful if your template is available when I’m done.

FWIW, I’m interested in ruby-only projects, so it would be useful to me  
to have directories/tools that are only needed for compiling extensions  
and installing libraries to be clearly identified as such.

There was a thread in ruby-talk in the past 1-3 years about directory  
structures specifically, but I haven’t the time to find it at the  
moment.

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**Author:** ![phrogz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/2acd7d/32.png) [@phrogz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/phrogz)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2006, 6:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-the-well-tempered-ruby-application/68707/2 "2006-09-14T18:16:54Z")

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On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Gavin K. wrote:

> There was a thread in ruby-talk in the past 1-3 years about directory structures specifically, but I haven’t the time to find it at the moment.

There was one recently – within the last month or two.

Kirk H.