diff --git a/.document b/.document
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+++ b/.document
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+README.rdoc
+lib/**/*.rb
+bin/*
+features/**/*.feature
+LICENSE
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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+++ b/LICENSE
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+Copyright (c) 2009 Tyler Hunt
+
+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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+= relief
+
+Description goes here.
+
+== Copyright
+
+Copyright (c) 2009 Tyler Hunt. 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 = "relief"
+    gem.summary = %Q{An XML to Hash Ruby parser DSL.}
+    gem.email = "tyler@tylerhunt.com"
+    gem.homepage = "http://github.com/tylerhunt/relief"
+    gem.authors = ["Tyler Hunt"]
+
+    # 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 'spec/rake/spectask'
+Spec::Rake::SpecTask.new(:spec) do |spec|
+  spec.libs << 'lib' << 'spec'
+  spec.spec_files = FileList['spec/**/*_spec.rb']
+end
+
+Spec::Rake::SpecTask.new(:rcov) do |spec|
+  spec.libs << 'lib' << 'spec'
+  spec.pattern = 'spec/**/*_spec.rb'
+  spec.rcov = true
+end
+
+
+task :default => :spec
+
+require 'rake/rdoctask'
+Rake::RDocTask.new do |rdoc|
+  if File.exist?('VERSION.yml')
+    config = YAML.load(File.read('VERSION.yml'))
+    version = "#{config[:major]}.#{config[:minor]}.#{config[:patch]}"
+  else
+    version = ""
+  end
+
+  rdoc.rdoc_dir = 'rdoc'
+  rdoc.title = "relief #{version}"
+  rdoc.rdoc_files.include('README*')
+  rdoc.rdoc_files.include('lib/**/*.rb')
+end
+
diff --git a/lib/relief.rb b/lib/relief.rb
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diff --git a/spec/relief_spec.rb b/spec/relief_spec.rb
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+++ b/spec/relief_spec.rb
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+require 'spec_helper'
+
+describe "Relief" do
+  it "fails" do
+    fail "hey buddy, you should probably rename this file and start specing for real"
+  end
+end
diff --git a/spec/spec_helper.rb b/spec/spec_helper.rb
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+++ b/spec/spec_helper.rb
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+require 'spec'
+
+$LOAD_PATH.unshift(File.dirname(__FILE__))
+$LOAD_PATH.unshift(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), '..', 'lib'))
+require 'relief'
+
+Spec::Runner.configure do |config|
+  
+end