jasmine/user-guide.html.md

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# Quick Start

## For JavaScript-only projects:
1. Get the latest standalone release from the [downloads page](index.html).
2. Open `SpecRunner.html` in your favorite browser.

## Other distributions:
* For integration with the Ruby environment, including automated execution with Selenium, please use the [jasmine gem](gem.html).

# Which Release Should I Use?

Please use the latest version unless you have a good reason not to. Some of this documentation may not be applicable to older versions. Please see [Release Notes](release-notes.html) for change information.

## Maintainers
* [Davis W. Frank](mailto:dwfrank@pivotallabs.com) ([infews](http://github.com/infews)), Pivotal Labs
* [Rajan Agaskar](mailto:rajan@pivotallabs.com) ([ragaskar](http://github.com/ragaskar)), Pivotal Labs
* [Christian Williams](mailto:xian@pivotallabs.com) ([Xian](http://github.com/Xian)), Pivotal Labs

## Developers
We welcome your contributions! Just fork the GitHub project ([Jasmine core](http://github.com/pivotal/jasmine) or
[Ruby gem](http://github.com/pivotal/jasmine-gem)), and submit a pull request. Lots of extra points if you include
tests for your changes!

## Acknowledgments
* A big shout out to the various JavaScript test framework authors, especially TJ for [JSpec](http://github.com/visionmedia/jspec/tree/master) - we played with it a bit before deciding that we really needed to roll our own.
* Thanks to Pivot [Jessica Miller](http://www.jessicamillerworks.com/) for our logo and fancy pass/fail/pending icons
* Huge contributions have been made by [Adam Abrons](mailto:adam@pivotallabs.com), [Lee Byrd](mailto:lee@pivotallabs.com), [Erik Hanson](mailto:erik@pivotallabs.com), [Carl Jackson](mailto:carl@pivotallabs.com), and many other Pivots.