After recent problems in packaging a basic hello world program in Ruby, I have created a PackagingGuide wiki page outlining the process of creating a program in Ruby and packaging it for Ubuntu and Debian. Thanks to SevenMachines for helping me to work it out. I encourage anyone who finds fault in what I have written, or has anything to add, to edit it.
The wiki can be found here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/Ruby
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