Got as far as having a Rakefile. Hurrah!

.gitignore

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+.bundle
+.DS_Store

MIT-LICENSE

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+Copyright (c) 2009 Jean-Sebastien Boulanger <jsboulanger@gmail.com>
+
+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.

Rakefile

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+require "bundler"
+Bundler.setup
+
+require "rspec/core/rake_task"
+Rspec::Core::RakeTask.new(:spec)
+
+gemspec = eval(File.read("ruby_ireland.gemspec"))
+
+task :build => "#{gemspec.full_name}.gem"
+
+file "#{gemspec.full_name}.gem" => gemspec.files + ["ruby_ireland.gemspec"] do
+  system "gem build ruby_ireland.gemspec"
+  system "gem install ruby_ireland-#{RubyIreland::VERSION}.gem"
+end

lib/rubyireland_feedback.rb

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+module RubyIreland
+  class Railtie < ::Rails::Railtie
+    rake_tasks do
+      desc "Talk about being in my_gem"
+      task :my_gem do
+        puts "You're in my_gem"
+      end
+    end
+
+  end
+end
+
+

lib/version.rb

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+module RubyIreland
+  VERSION = '0.0.1'
+end

ruby_ireland.gemspec

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+require File.expand_path("../lib/ruby_ireland/version", __FILE__)
+
+Gem::Specification.new do |s|
+  s.name = "ruby_ireland"
+  s.version = RubyIreland::VERSION
+  s.platform = Gem::Platform::RUBY
+  s.authors = ["Everyone", "And Co"]
+  s.email = ["foo@rubyireland.com"]
+  s.homepage = "http://github.com/carlhuda/ruby_ireland"
+  s.summary = "A new gem templates"
+  s.description = "You're definitely going to want to replace a lot of this"
+
+  s.required_rubygems_version = ">= 1.3.6"
+
+  # lol - required for validation
+  s.rubyforge_project = "ruby_ireland"
+
+  # If you have other dependencies, add them here
+  # s.add_dependency "another", "~> 1.2"
+
+  # If you need to check in files that aren't .rb files, add them here
+  s.files = Dir["{lib}/**/*.rb", "bin/*", "MIT-LICENSE", "*.md"]
+  s.require_path = 'lib'
+
+  # If you need an executable, add it here
+  # s.executables = ["ruby_ireland"]
+
+  # If you have C extensions, uncomment this line
+  # s.extensions = "ext/extconf.rb"
+end