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+##BikeBike
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+**This is a base container for Community Bike Shop docker containers.**
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+It provides *MySQL* and *Ruby* since the majority of software written for the BikeBike community utilizes this software environment.  However, this may just be a temporary solution, and in the future individual container may have the option to depend on other containters providing these environments.