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Build Awesome Command-Line Applications in Ruby 2
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Build Awesome Command-Line Applications in Ruby 2

by David B. Copeland
November 2013
Intermediate to advanced
224 pages
6h 9m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Collaborating with Other Developers

We’ve talked a lot about making an awesome command-line app that is easy to use. We also want our application to be easy to develop and maintain. This reduces the burden on us and others for fixing bugs and adding new features (which, in turn, helps our users). This section is all about making sure the initial setup for developers is painless.

To allow developers to get up and running quickly, we need to provide two things: a way to manage development-time dependencies and a way to provide and manage developer documentation. We’ll also talk briefly about setting up an open source project on GitHub, which is a great way to allow other developers to contribute to your open source project.

Managing Development ...

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