From: tim.pease@...
Date: 2008-10-16T07:32:44+09:00
Subject: [ANN] Mr Bones 2.1.0 (Palimpsest)

Mr Bones version 2.1.0
    by Tim Pease
    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
* 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

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 Keep rattlin' dem bones!
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