diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
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+*.sw?
+.DS_Store
+coverage
+rdoc
+pkg
diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/LICENSE
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+Copyright (c) 2009 John Nunemaker
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
+a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
+"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
+without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
+distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
+permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
+the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
+included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
+EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
+MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
+NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE
+LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION
+OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
+WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
diff --git a/README.rdoc b/README.rdoc
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+++ b/README.rdoc
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+= google-weather
+
+Description goes here.
+
+== Copyright
+
+Copyright (c) 2009 John Nunemaker. See LICENSE for details.
diff --git a/Rakefile b/Rakefile
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+++ b/Rakefile
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+require 'rubygems'
+require 'rake'
+
+begin
+  require 'jeweler'
+  Jeweler::Tasks.new do |gem|
+    gem.name = "google-weather"
+    gem.summary = %Q{TODO}
+    gem.email = "nunemaker@gmail.com"
+    gem.homepage = "http://github.com/jnunemaker/google-weather"
+    gem.authors = ["John Nunemaker"]
+    # gem is a Gem::Specification... see http://www.rubygems.org/read/chapter/20 for additional settings
+  end
+rescue LoadError
+  puts "Jeweler not available. Install it with: sudo gem install technicalpickles-jeweler -s http://gems.github.com"
+end
+
+require 'rake/rdoctask'
+Rake::RDocTask.new do |rdoc|
+  rdoc.rdoc_dir = 'rdoc'
+  rdoc.title = 'google-weather'
+  rdoc.options << '--line-numbers' << '--inline-source'
+  rdoc.rdoc_files.include('README*')
+  rdoc.rdoc_files.include('lib/**/*.rb')
+end
+
+require 'rake/testtask'
+Rake::TestTask.new(:test) do |test|
+  test.libs << 'lib' << 'test'
+  test.pattern = 'test/**/*_test.rb'
+  test.verbose = false
+end
+
+begin
+  require 'rcov/rcovtask'
+  Rcov::RcovTask.new do |test|
+    test.libs << 'test'
+    test.pattern = 'test/**/*_test.rb'
+    test.verbose = true
+  end
+rescue LoadError
+  task :rcov do
+    abort "RCov is not available. In order to run rcov, you must: sudo gem install spicycode-rcov"
+  end
+end
+
+
+task :default => :test
diff --git a/lib/google_weather.rb b/lib/google_weather.rb
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diff --git a/test/google_weather_test.rb b/test/google_weather_test.rb
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/google_weather_test.rb
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+require 'test_helper'
+
+class GoogleWeatherTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
+  should "probably rename this file and start testing for real" do
+    flunk "hey buddy, you should probably rename this file and start testing for real"
+  end
+end
diff --git a/test/test_helper.rb b/test/test_helper.rb
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+++ b/test/test_helper.rb
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+require 'rubygems'
+require 'test/unit'
+require 'shoulda'
+
+$LOAD_PATH.unshift(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), '..', 'lib'))
+$LOAD_PATH.unshift(File.dirname(__FILE__))
+require 'google_weather'
+
+class Test::Unit::TestCase
+end