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* MIT License
* README includes a description of the project shows how to run the
  tests to check solutions to the exercises.

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+The MIT License (MIT)
+
+Copyright (c) 2015 Teddy Wing
+
+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.
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+Beginning Ruby Exercises
+========================
+
+A small set of Ruby exercises aimed at beginning programmers learning Ruby.
+Written for one of my students at [The Firehose
+Project](http://www.thefirehoseproject.com/).
+
+Write solutions to exercises in [exercises.rb](exercises.rb). My solutions are
+available in [exercises_solutions.rb](exercises_solutions.rb).
+
+
+## Checking your solutions
+Find out if your solutions are correct by running the tests. These can be run
+for individual exercises using using `run_test.sh`:
+
+	$ ./run_test.sh 3
+
+The above command will run the tests for exercise 3.
+
+After completing the exercises, all the tests can be run using the spec file
+directly:
+
+	$ ruby exercises_spec.rb
+
+
+## License
+Licensed under the MIT License. See the included LICENSE file.