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The Help file was not generated, had to copy it by hand to make it work.

Following the instructions in the readme gives a mass assignment error in Rails 3.2. May want to add the without_protection flag to the sample:

Announcement.create({:body => 'This is my first announcement!'}, :without_protection => true)

whenever i do

gem install announcements

i get...

ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::DependencyError)
Unable to resolve dependencies: railties requires actionpack (= 3.2.0); actionmailer requires actionpack (= 3.2.0)

even thoo i just updated these:
activemodel-3.2.0
actionpack-3.2.0
actionmailer-3.2.0
activemodel-3.2.0

seems to be something with your gem so i thought i'd let you know.

Would be great to add column ends_at attribute which define when the stops to show.
If the ends_at attribute is nil, then the annoucement is shown forewer.

Going further:
add method for easy adding time period from now, e.g.
Announcement.new(for: 10.minutes, body: "Server is going to upgrade, some functionality should be limited now").

  def for(period)
    self.ends_at = period.from_now
  end

Is this a way you are planning to extend this gem? Would be such pull request wellcome?

P.S. The same extension should be for starts_at attribute, but it is not necessary for me.

can i make a relation between announcement and comments ? to make the users able to comment on any announcement ?
can i generate a controller too ?
how to add a hyper link in the announcement ?