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+Thrift Ruby Software Library
+
+Author: Mark Slee (mcslee@facebook.com)
+Last Modified: 2007-Mar-05
+
+Thrift is distributed under the Thrift open source software license.
+Please see the included LICENSE file.
+
+Using Thrift with Ruby
+======================
+
+Okay, I'll be honest. I learned Ruby by implementing the Thrift library in
+Ruby and writing the code generator at the same time. I am not a trendy
+web 2.0 programmer. Shit, I don't even know Rails. So if you care about Ruby
+you will probably find that this is currently the least robust Thrift library
+implementation. But there's plenty of time to improve it...
+
+The source code for the Ruby library is designed for installation with the
+Python-esque setup.rb utility, which is included here and redistributable
+under the GPL license.
+
+To install the Thrift Ruby libraries, become superuser and do:
+
+ruby setup.rb config
+ruby setup.rb setup
+ruby setup.rb install
+
+Alternatively, if you know more about Ruby than me, you can improve the build
+and installation process and contribute them back to this project. Wicked.