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 A ruby client for the SynapsePay.com API.
 
-I ripped originally wrote this in a rails app of mine and stripped this out. There's some work left to do to really make it a true ruby gem. See that in the todo section.
+I originally wrote this in a rails app of mine and stripped this out. There's some work left to do to really make it a true ruby gem. See that in the todo section.
 
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