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Polish Your Gem flickr.com/photos/the_justified_sinner/8656532776 @AaronLasseigne

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Off to a Good Start flickr.com/photos/53370644@N06/4976494944

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Jeweler vs

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Being a Good Citizen flickr.com/photos/mandajuice/562954687

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LICENSE.txt

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http://choosealicense.com

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Documentation

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Reference

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http://yardoc.org

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http://rubydoc.info

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Versioning

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Update Dependencies

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Free!

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COVERALLS Free!

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Travis Free!

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.travis.yml

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Kindness is a Virtue

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If You Build It, They’ll Ignore You

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There are 57 trillion Ruby gems currently available. (Actually ~76k)

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http://www.rubyflow.com

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http://rubydaily.org

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http://ruby5.envylabs.com

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http://reddit.com/r/ruby http://reddit.com/r/rails

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http://twitter.com

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Contributors Welcome flickr.com/photos/ableman/283139915

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CONTRIBUTING.md

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CODEOFCONDUCT.md

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http://batsov.com/rubocop

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Plugins available for most editors.

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Integrates into Guard.

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Works with CI.

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Tests

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Allow for custom .rspec files.

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Allow for custom .guardrc files.

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Final Advice flickr.com/photos/fanz/3613555898

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Free!

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Make things you actually use.

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Use the buddy system.