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+
+### Running tests
+
+#### Running with Rake
+
+The easiest way to run the unit tests is through Rake. The default task runs
+the entire test suite for all classes. For more information, checkout the
+full array of rake tasks with "rake -T"
+
+Rake can be found at http://docs.seattlerb.org/rake/.
+
+To run a single test suite
+
+   rake test TEST=path/to/test.rb
+
+which can be further narrowed down to one test:
+
+   rake test TEST=path/to/test.rb TESTOPTS="--name=test_something"